blowgun
b loh guhn
- n a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing
- Even a poison secreted by South American frogs and used by tribes like the Piaroa to make deadly blowgun darts now serves as the basis for a morphine substitute being developed .
- In Malaysia blowgun-armed Penan tribesmen have joined forces with environmentalists in an effort to stop rampant logging.
- Now the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare will be able to banish from the market such presently available items as a blowgun that allows the darts to be inhaled, a .