UPAS

Definition: UPAS

UPAS

Noun

1. 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).

2. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "UPAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references)

Synonyms within Context: UPAS

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Bane	Hemlock, hellebore, nightshade, belladonna, henbane, aconite; banewort, bhang, ganja, hashish; Upas tree.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: UPAS

English words defined with "UPAS": Antiar ♦ Bohun upas. (references)

Specialty definitions using "UPAS": Upas-tree ♦ Vulgar Errors. (references)

Non-English Usage: "UPAS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (upas, upas-tree), Serbo-Croatian (upas), Turkish (upas).

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Commercial Usage: UPAS

Domain	Title
Books	Comparative Political Philosophy: Studies Under the Upas Tree (reference) The upas tree : a novel (reference) The upas tree : Glasgow 1875-1975 : a study in growth and contraction (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: UPAS

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The Democratic Upas tree kills freedom and chastity. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: UPAS

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	It will not do to fall asleep either in the shade of a upas tree or in the shadow of an army.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: UPAS

"UPAS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "UPAS" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	83.33%	5	157,705
Noun (proper)	16.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	6	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: UPAS

Expressions using "UPAS": bohun upas ♦ upas antiar ♦ upas tieute ♦ upas tree. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "UPAS": upas-tree.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: UPAS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
upas	8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: UPAS

Language		Translations for "UPAS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ndikim i keq. (various references)

Arabic		‏الأوباس شجر. (various references)

Bulgarian		гибелно влияние, отровен сок от анчар, зловредно влияние, анчар (upas-tree), пагубни навици. (various references)

Czech		strom (Buckthorn, candleberry, cinchona, dogwood, dragon-tree, durmast, guelder rose, hydrangea, judas-tree, live-oak, loblolly-bay, locust tree, quebracho, sassafras, seringa, service tree, Shea, single-tree, sumac, tree, umbrella tree). (various references)

Greek		δένδρο τησ ιάβασ με δηλητηριώδη χυμόν. (various references)

Hungarian		mérges ancsar. (various references)

Pig Latin		asupay

Portuguese		upas (upas-tree). (various references)

Russian		анчар (upas-tree). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		upas. (various references)

Turkish		upas ağacı özsuyu, upas. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: UPAS

Derivations
	Words beginning with "UPAS": upases. (additional references)
	Words ending with "UPAS": pupas, stupas. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "UPAS"

Words rhyming with "UPAS" (pronounced 'U"pas'): Pampas. (additional references)

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Anagrams: UPAS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-p-s-u"
	-1 letter: asp, pas, pus, sap, sau, spa, sup, ups.
	-2 letters: as, pa, up, us.
	Words containing the letters "a-p-s-u"
	+1 letter: jaups, pause, praus, pujas, pumas, punas, pupas, scaup, sputa, stupa, supra, yaups.
	+2 letters: ampuls, auspex, campus, carpus, catsup, cuppas, lapsus, layups, palpus, pappus, pareus, parous, passus, pausal, paused, pauser, pauses, pilaus, prahus, pujahs, pulsar, punkas, purdas, sannup, sapour, scaups, stupas, subpar, sulpha, taupes, ulpans, uncaps, unsnap, upases, upcast, upsoar, wampus, washup, whaups.
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