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Definition of: upas
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′pəs) noun
1. A tall evergreen moraceous tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the island of Java, with an acrid, milky, poisonous juice.
2. The poisonous sap of this tree, used by natives in the manufacture of arrow poison; also, a similar poison from the upas-tieute, a climbing shrub (genus Strychnos) of the family Loganiaceae.
3. Hence, something morally deadly. [<Malay (pohon) upas poison (tree)]
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