What is the meaning of Curare?

A plant, Strychnos toxifera, formerly used in arrow poisons in South America due to its D-tubocurarine content.

Other South American plants with similar toxins that were also used in arrow poisons, mostly in the family Menispermaceae.

A substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine, used historically as a muscle relaxant during surgery.

curare

to treat, cure (a patient, disease, etc.)

to look after

to value; to take care of

(with [che + subj.] or [di + inf.]) to do in such a way (that); to make it so (that)

inflection of cūrō:

  1. present active infinitive
  2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

present active infinitive

second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

curare (a substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine)

cleaning, purification

curare

first/third-person singular future subjunctive of curar

curare

Source: wiktionary.org