Usually means: Paralyzing agent from plant extract.
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  8. curare: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  15. Curare, curare: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
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  1. curare: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

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noun:  A plant, Strychnos toxifera, formerly used in arrow poisons in South America due to its D-tubocurarine content.
noun:  Other South American plants with similar toxins that were also used in arrow poisons, mostly in the family Menispermaceae.
noun:  A substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine, used historically as a muscle relaxant during surgery.

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