Definitions for curares

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curares cu·ra·re

Spelling: [kyoo-rahr-ee, koo-]

IPA: /kyʊˈrɑr i, kʊ-/

Curares is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 177 anagrams from letters in curares (acerrsu).

Definitions for curares

noun

1. a blackish, resinlike substance derived from tropical plants of the genus Strychnos, especially S. toxifera, and from the root of pareira, used by certain South American Indians for poisoning arrows and employed in physiological experiments, medicine, etc., for arresting the action of motor nerves.
2. a plant yielding this substance.

Origin of curares

1770-80; Portuguese Carib kurari

Examples for curares

Atropine or curare have no influence on the heart thus poisoned.

As for your betrothed, you shall give him a dose of curare or atropine.

A good account of curare was published in the Edinburgh Review, July 1899.

Now we have a perfect right to take a practical view of curare.

It is simply incapable of movement, as would happen after an injection of curare.

Such is the quickness with which the “curare” does its work!

Their weapons are usually arrows poisoned as I have heard with the curare.

Another process was yet required before the curare was ready for the arrows.

But the blow-gun was at length levelled, and the curare did its work.

I hold no brief for those who do otherwise, and I disapprove energetically of the use of curare.