| 单词 | wourali vine |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswourali vine A South American climbing plant, Strychnos toxifera, from the root of which one of the ingredients of the poison curare n. is obtained; also, the poison itself. Also attributive, as wourali poison, wourali vine. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding poison > [adjective] wourali1769 urali1843 tuba1890 the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > poisons from plants > used on arrows Macassar poison1662 wourali1769 curare1777 urali1843 ouabaio1856 inée1874 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding poison > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding poison > urari tree or bark wourali1769 urari bark1838 urali1843 1596 L. Keymis Relation 2nd Voy. Guiana sig. G2 Names of poysoned hearbes. Ourari.] 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 101 The Woorara, which is the principal ingredient in the composition of the fatal Indian arrow poison of that name. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. xv. 395 A few of the above arrows are frequently dipped in the woorara poison, which is instantaneously fatal. 1803 T. Winterbottom Acct. Native Africans Sierra Leone I. xv. 271 A kind of dart,..dipped in a poison called woorrara. 1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. 53 A vine grows in these wilds, which is called wourali. 1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. 53 The wourali poison destroys life's action so gently, that the victim appears to be in no pain whatever. 1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. 54 He scrapes the wourali vine and bitter root into thin shavings. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 152/2 Wooraly, Urari, or Poison-plant of Guiana. 1862 Year-bk. Med. 1861 (New Sydenham Soc.) 18 Nervous sensibility, after its suspension by woorara poisoning. 1880 Ld. Tennyson In Children's Hospital i And mangle the living dog..Drench'd with the hellish oorali. 1899 Edinb. Rev. July 159 Curare, or woorali, or oorali, as it is variously called. It is the arrow poison of Guiana. 1902 P. Fountain Great Mountains & Forests S. Amer. vii. 185 My mixture..was, like the true wourali, innocuous if swallowed. 1902 P. Fountain Great Mountains & Forests S. Amer. vii. 189 I have..strong grounds for believing that it is snake-poison that is the active principle in the wourali paste. < as lemmas |
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