curare
Meaning of curare
noun
- A plant, Strychnos toxifera, formerly used in arrow poisons in South America due to its D-tubocurarine content
- Other South American plants with similar toxins that were also used in arrow poisons, mostly in the family Menispermaceae
- A substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine, used historically as a muscle relaxant during surgery
Information about curare
- It is a name.
- The plural form of curare is: curares.
- Languages in which curare is used:
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Catalan
GalicianHyphenation of curare
cu-rare
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- curare is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
curare synonyms
Meaning tubocurarine:
Translation of curare
Words that rhyme with curare
rare, Harare, harare, ultrarare, crare, tacnodeRare, frare, semirare, unrare, Carrare, Curare, jurare, urare
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