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What is curare?

What is curare? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A plant, Strychnos toxifera, formerly used in arrow poisons in South America due to its D-tubocurarine content.
  2. Other South American plants with similar toxins that were also used in arrow poisons, mostly in the family Menispermaceae
  3. A substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine, used historically as a muscle relaxant during surgery.
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Turning to our Nineteenth Century essayists, we find chloroform is everywhere, and curare nowhere.
If they were extracting strychnine from the curare vine for poison blowgun darts, he did likewise.
They use blowguns and darts dipped in a type of poison called curare, which instantly paralyzes an animal.
They were seeking an alternative to the muscle relaxant drug, curare, derived from the South American Indian arrow poison.
The darts, sharpened at one end, are dipped in the poisonous sap of the curare tree to produce an anaesthetic effect upon the victim.
Did you know that there's a species of frog on this island that secretes a powerful toxin known as curare?

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