upasとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Malay upas.

名詞

upas (usually uncountable, plural upases)

1. (usually countable) A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions.
   • 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, chapter 11, in Nightmare Abbey, Hookham, published 1818:

     [I]t is an all-blasting upas, whose root is earth, and whose leaves are the skies which rain their poison-dews upon mankind.

2. (uncountable) A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows derived from the tree.
3. (uncountable) A poison prepared from the climbing plant Strychnos tieute.

同意語

• (Antiaris toxicaria): bohun upas
• (poison from Antiaris toxicaria):
• (poison from Strychnos tieute): upas tieute

アナグラム

• UAPs, AUPs, Apsu, sapu, Puas, SPUA, puas, USAP, PUAs, Apus, pa'us, APUs, paus