wourali
Americannoun
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A quantity of the strongest Indian red pepper was lastly added; and as the ingredients boiled, more of the juice of the wourali was poured in as was required.
From On the Banks of the Amazon by William H. C. Groome
First they showed us some long sticks of a thin vine—the wourali itself.
From On the Banks of the Amazon by William H. C. Groome
The native hunter, on wishing to obtain one of these creatures alive, goes forth with his blow-pipe, and arrows tipped with diluted wourali poison.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
Having scraped the wourali vine and bitter root into thin shavings, he puts them into a sieve made of leaves, which he holds over the earthen pot, pouring water on them.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
Having now reached the Portuguese inland frontier and collected a sufficient quantity of the wourali poison, nothing remains but to give a brief account of its composition, its effects, its uses and its supposed antidotes.
From Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton
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