A tall East Asian tree with large leaves and hard wood, sometimes called the upas tree.
From Malay 'antiar' or 'antjaar'. The tree was known to Europeans mainly through accounts of its use by indigenous peoples, and the name was directly borrowed from Malay languages.
The antiar tree had a legendary reputation in old European accounts as 'the tree of death' that killed everything nearby, but scientists later learned the stories were wildly exaggerated, though the tree is genuinely toxic.
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