upas
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 4
Definition of upas
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, usually)A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions.
“[I]t is an all-blasting upas, whose root is earth, and whose leaves are the skies which rain their poison-dews upon mankind.”
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noun
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(countable, usually)A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions.
“[I]t is an all-blasting upas, whose root is earth, and whose leaves are the skies which rain their poison-dews upon mankind.”
- (uncountable, usually)A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows and derived from the tree.
- (uncountable, usually)A poison prepared from the climbing plant Strychnos tieute.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay upas.
Anagrams of upas
11 plays · some not in Scrabble
Words you can make from upas
12 playable · top: ASP (5 pts)
Best play asp 5 points3-letter words
7 words2-letter words
4 wordsHooks
1 extension · 1 front
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