Hura

hura hurá Translingual thumb|Hura crepitans species Etymology From mul sai-car mbc urari, mbc vurari, mbc ourali, mbc wourali, mbc wourara, mbc worara, name of an arrow-poison from Strychnos toxifera species also known in English, French, Italian etc. as en curare, brought first to Europe in 1595 by Walter Raleigh. Proper noun 1 f genus family Euphorbiaceae certain trees of the Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico Usage notes In 1783, Johann Gerhard König used the name Hura to refer to a very different plant from the one Linnaeus had named, thus creating an illegitimate homonym. Those plants are now in the genus Globba genus. Hypernyms genus ; Euphorbioideae subfamily - subfamily; Hureae tribe - tribe Hyponyms genus Hura crepitans species - type species References Hura (plant) Hura (plant) 1 1 304a–b 3 295a 1890 Archiv für die gesammte Physiologie des Menschen und der Thiere 47 Nikolski Wl. Dogiel Joh. Zur Lehre über die physiologische Wirkung des Curare 68–115 https://www.google.de/books/edition/Archiv_f%C3%BCr_die_gesammte_Physiologie_des/ebJjiNj2ZfkC?gbpv=1&pg=PA68&printsec=frontcover