Upas

Word UPAS
Character 4
Hyphenation u pas
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Definitions and meanings of "Upas"

What do we mean by upas?

A deciduous tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of tropical Africa and Asia that yields a latex used as an arrow poison. noun

The poison obtained from this tree or from similar trees. noun

The poisonous sap of different trees of the Malayan and Philippine Islands, more or less used for arrow-poison. noun

The tree Antiaris toxicaria, one of the largest Javanese trees, having a cylindrical stem 60 or 70 feet high below the branches. noun

Figuratively, something baneful or pernicious from a moral point of view: as, the upas of drunkenness. noun

A tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is deleterious. Called also bohun upas. noun

A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is derived from the upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute). noun

A tree Antiaris toxicaria of the breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions. noun

A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows derived from the tree. noun

A poison prepared from a climbing plant Strychnos tieute noun

(usually countable) A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions.

A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows derived from the tree.

A poison prepared from the climbing plant Strychnos tieute.

Upper Pubic Area. People say FUPA, it's high time we start saying UPA for those with normal amounts of upper pubic cellulose. Urban Dictionary

Upper Pussy Area...NOT the "fat upper pussy area" (aka Fupa) Urban Dictionary

Ufficio Perizie Ambientali (UPA) is a madeup institute invented by some dumb students at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). The headquarters are on the 3rd floor of a building in the aforementioned university, in office 6969 (which, of course, doesn't exist). The word is now used by many students, meaning "a place you go in order to study or do school stuff". Urban Dictionary

If u are tying to tell someone something important you must say (especially if he is or posses a naitan) you say listen upa here aNAITAN in a slightly asian accent, but you must grunt the naitan. Urban Dictionary

An uprising against an unfair maths teacher. Urban Dictionary

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The word "upas" in example sentences

(presented to the Royal Society), upon the effects of similar experiments made with what he terms the upas antiar. ❋ William Marsden (1795)

The former he states to be a decoction or extract from the bark of the roots of a climbing plant of the genus strychnos, called tieute by the natives of Java; and the latter to be a milky, bitter, and yellowish juice, running from an incision in the bark of a large tree (new genus) called antiar; the word upas meaning, as M. Leschenault understands, vegetable poison of any kind. ❋ William Marsden (1795)

The word 'upas,' in the language of the natives, means poison, and there is in the island a valley called the upas, or poison, valley. ❋ Ella Rodman Church (N/A)

The laburnum, with its golden rain, is potentially a kind of upas tree. ❋ Unknown (1882)

Fuller would, indeed, recommend moderation in the practice; but of 'upas', 'woorara', and persecution, there are no moderate doses possible. ❋ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1803)

'upas' tree -- sulphurous fumes attend final stages. ❋ Robert Falcon Scott (1890)

Great stuff - this can actually make a difference to their work, and I feel that is is actually worth scouring the house for things people have not used for a few weeks, in the secure knowledge that they will be put to good use and go to a good cause, rather than my previous sneaking suspicion that they would end upas landfill. ❋ Maxine (2009)

One day, (though I pray not in my lifetime), the people will awaken and will rise upas they realize there is still as much money in the land as there ever was. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This was a family favorite growing upas was “The Blue Dahlia” on the list of classic noir rerun on television. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mays remarks that the upas tree was a favourite image of C's from schooldays on, but ❋ Unknown (2007)

Coleridge was taken up with this matter of the poisonous upas tree. ❋ Chris Perridas (2008)

That this was the rare upas tree that blighted all ordinary life that strayed beneath its shade bore in my mind the weight of proven fact. ❋ Chris Perridas (2008)

There was something about that tree wholly unlike the ordinary upas under which children and farm animals tumbled about unharmed throughout India and Malaya. ❋ Chris Perridas (2008)

Two years on, the war and the corruption scandal may be sizing upas the miserable bookends of his premiership. ❋ Unknown (2008)

[Woah], [check out] [that girl's] UPA! ❋ The Gosh Dang Bruin (2021)

"[That chick's] upa was [shaved] a lot [less than] the ones I usually see, man" ❋ Gillzilla (2003)

[Today's] [lunch] was shit... [Let's go] back to UPA! ❋ MrBrown95 (2019)

[Naitan]: d00d [h4l0] is t3h r0x0rz its b3tt3r th4n g34rs Me: [Listen upa here aNAITAN], gears requires aim and halo just requires fast reflexes! ❋ Gidetan (2007)

Person 1: Man, [my maths] teachers keeping me in all day ); Person 2: [u know] what they say, [upa] Sweeneys ❋ Yesdabsis (2018)

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