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barbasco

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

noun barbascos

countable, uncountable 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.
countable, uncountable An evergreen (Jacquinia barbasco, now Jacquinia arborea)
countable, uncountable One of several inedible wild Mexican yams (Dioscorea mexicana and Dioscorea composita) from which progesterone can be synthesized.

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@misc{barbasco_2026,
  title = {barbasco},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/barbasco},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}