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barbasco

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bar·bas·co  (bär-bäsk)
n. pl. bar·bas·cos
1. Any of several tropical American plants, as in the genus Lonchocarpus, that contain a substance that can stun or paralyze fish.
2. Any of several Mexican plants of the genus Dioscorea having a large, inedible root that yields an extract used as a raw material for synthetic steroid hormones.
[American Spanish, from Spanish barbasco, mullein, alteration (possibly influenced by barba, beard) of verbasco, from Latin verbascum.]
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Noun1.barbasco - West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood
Jacquinia keyensis, joewood
genus Jacquinia, Jacquinia - sometimes placed in family Myrsinaceae
bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
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