Hura

See also: hura

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.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, fabids, COM clade - clades; Malpighiales - order; Euphorbiaceae - family; Euphorbioideae - subfamily; Hureae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Hura crepitans - type species

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), 3^rd 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