1777, from Portuguese or Spanish curare, a corruption of the name in the Carib language of the Macusi Indians of Guyana, wurali or wurari, which had a sort of click sound at the beginning, and is said to mean "he to whom it comes falls."
雙語例句
1. The modern clinical use of curare probably dates from 1932.
箭毒的現(xiàn)代臨床應(yīng)用可追溯至1932年.
來自辭典例句
2. It is a curare alkaloid derived from the South American plant.