Curare: 1 definition

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Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

1) Curare in English is the name of a plant defined with Chondrodendron tomentosum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Botryopsis spruceana Eichler (among others).

2) Curare is also identified with Strychnos icaja It has the synonym Strychnos triclisioides Baker (etc.).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Systema Vegetabilium Florae Peruvianae et Chilensis (1798)
· Notizblatt des Königlichen botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin (1899)
· Adansonia (1879)
· British Museum, Natural History. Catalogue of the plants collected by Mr. & Mrs. P. A. Talbot in the Oban district South Nigeria (1913)
· Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew (1895)
· Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de l’État (1915)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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