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barbasco

barbasco noun: a plant (Lonchocarpus urucu, now Deguelia rufescens var. urucu) native to parts of northern South America used as a poison for fishing and an insecticide.

Noun

barbasco (countable and uncountable, plural barbascos)

  1. A plant (Lonchocarpus urucu, now Deguelia rufescens var. urucu) native to parts of northern South America used as a poison for fishing and an insecticide.
  2. An evergreen (Jacquinia barbasco, now Jacquinia arborea)
  3. One of several inedible wild Mexican yams (Dioscorea mexicana and Dioscorea composita) from which progesterone can be synthesized.

Forms of barbasco

pluralbarbascos

Origin of barbasco

From American Spanish barbasco, perhaps alteration of Spanish verbasco, varbasco (“mullein”), from Latin verbascum.

Questions about barbasco

What does barbasco mean?
Barbasco means a plant (Lonchocarpus urucu, now Deguelia rufescens var. urucu) native to parts of northern South America used as a poison for fishing and an insecticide.
What part of speech is barbasco?
Barbasco is a noun.
What is the plural of barbasco?
The plural of barbasco is barbascos.

Words near barbasco in the dictionary

  1. Barbary lion
  2. Barbary lions
  3. Barbary macaque
  4. Barbary macaques
  5. Barbary sheep
  6. barbasco
  7. barbascos
  8. barbastel
  9. barbastelle
  10. barbastelles
  11. barbastels

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