CURARE
- an arrow poison [n CURARES]
- plant yielding this substance
- an arrow poison, also CURARI, URARE, URARI [n -S]
- blackish, resinlike substance derived from tropical plants of the genus Strychnos, esp. S. toxifera, and from the root of pareira, used by certain South American Indians for poisoning arrows and employed in physiological experiments, medicin