woorali
/woo-rah-lee/US // wʊˈrɑ li //UK // (wʊˈrɑːlɪ) //
沃拉里
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : curare.
Examples
M. Thiercelin, the inventor of this poison, composes it by mixing a salt of strychnine with one-twentieth of woorali.
How could he, indeed, he observed, find the materials for concocting the woorali poison into which to dip the point of his darts?
The first was composed of several bunches of the woorali vine; another was a root with a sharp, bitter taste.
Be sure I looked, Doctor, the instant I suspected that woorali had been used.
Woorali is extremely volatile, for one thing, and evaporates rapidly.
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