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bar·bas·co (bär-bäs

)

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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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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