Associations to the word «Derris»

Wiktionary

DERRIS, noun. A climbing leguminous plant of Southeast Asia and the southwest Pacific Islands, whose roots are a source of rotenone.

Dictionary definition

DERRIS, noun. Any of various usually woody vines of the genus Derris of tropical Asia whose roots yield the insecticide rotenone; several are sources of native fish and arrow poisons.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca