Upas is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for UPAS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an Asian tree with a poisonous drip
• a tropical Asian tree, the milky sap of which has been used as arrow poison and for ritual purposes.
• (in folklore) a Javanese tree alleged to poison its surroundings and said to be fatal to approach.
• large Javan tree with whitish bark and poisonous milky sap
• 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.
• A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is, derived from upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute).

Words related to UPAS

antiar6 upases8

Words that contain UPAS

oupas7 pupas9 zupas16 stupas8 upases8 chalupas15 garoupas11 prepupas14

How to use UPAS in a sentence

• He would have tried a prescription of sleeping all night on wet grass under a upas tree, if such a remedy for rheumatism had come from Her.
• Travelers in that region would send home the wildest and most improbable stories of the poison tree, until the very name of the upas was enough to make people shudder.
• He wrote an account of the valley in which the upas was said to be growing alone, for no tree nor shrub was to be found near it.
• This upas valley is about half a mile in circumference, and the vapor that escapes through the cracks and fissures is fatal to every living thing.
• We have in this country a upas tree named the liquor traffic.
• The information given by Rumphius upon the subject of the Ipo or Upas, in his Herb.
• A small branch of the puhn upas, with some of the poisonous gum, was brought to England in 1806 by Dr.
• He wondered whether there was a Upas tree in that humble home.
• Surely not! A Upas tree and a Christmas-tree could hardly find place in the same home.
• But, all the while, the shadow of the Upas tree was there.
• Instinctively they shrank back from the beautiful bush as though it had been the fabled Upas.
• Without her aid, this seminal principle of mischief, this root of Upas, could not have been planted.
• Leave her neither root nor branch in the world of the West! If we do, she will be a thorn in our side, a upas tree poisoning the air.

Similar words containing UPA without suffix s

oupa6 pupa8 zupa15 eupad8 oupas7 pupae9 pupal9 pupas9 stupa7 zupan16 zupas16 eupads9 jupati15 pupate10 stupas8 supawn11 upases8 zupans17 chalupa14 chupati14 dupable12 dupatta10 garoupa10 jupatis16 kaupapa15 lupanar9 prepupa13 puparia11 pupated12 pupates11 raupatu9 supawns12 taupata9 upalong10 chalupas15 chupatis15 chupatti15 chupatty18 croupade13 dupattas11 eupatrid11 garoupas11 groupage12 kaupapas16 lupanars10 occupant14 occupate14 prepupae14 prepupal14 prepupas14 puparial12 puparium14 pupating13 pupation12 raupatus10 stroupan10 taupatas10 upadaisy14 upalongs11 chupattis16 croupades14 decoupage15 eupatrids12 groupable14 groupages13 nuncupate13 occupance17 occupancy20 occupants15 occupated16 occupates15 pupations13 stroupach16 stroupans11 upaithric16 chupatties17 decoupaged17 decoupages16 drupaceous15 dupability18 eupatorium14 eupatridae13 hupaithric20 nuncupated15 nuncupates14 occupances18 occupating17 occupation16 occupative19 recoupable16 stroupachs17 decoupaging18 eupatoriums15 nuncupating16 nuncupation15 nuncupative18 nuncupatory18 occupancies19 occupations17 preoccupant19 Show more ...

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