Hura

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Translingual

Hura crepitans

Etymology

From Cariban urari, vurari, ourali, wourali, wourara, worara, name of an arrow-poison from Strychnos toxifera also known in English, French, Italian etc. as curare, brought first to Europe in 1595 by Walter Raleigh.

Proper noun

Hura f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the 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.

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References

  • Hura (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Hura on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Hura on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
  • Hura at Tropicos
  • Friederici, Georg (1960) Amerikanistisches Wörterbuch und Hilfswörterbuch für den Amerikanisten. Deutsch-Spanisch-Englisch (Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiet der Auslandskunde / Reihe B: Völkerkunde, Kulturgeschichte und Sprachen; 53), 2nd edition, Hamburg: Cram, De Gruyter & Co., →DOI, pages 304a–b
  • Genaust, Helmut (1996) “Hura”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, page 295a
  • Nikolski, Wl., Dogiel, Joh. (1890) “Zur Lehre über die physiologische Wirkung des Curare”, in Archiv für die gesammte Physiologie des Menschen und der Thiere, volume 47, pages 68–115
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