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barbasco
noun
bar·bas·co
\bärˈba(ˌ)skō, -rˈbä-\
variants: less commonly
babasco
\bäˈb-, bəˈb-\Definition of barbasco
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1 : wild cinnamon 1
2 : joewood
3a : any of various plants used by the Indians of northern South America in making fish poison; especially : cube 1 b : the poison (such as rotenone) contained in these plants
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Origin and Etymology of barbasco
American Spanish barbasco, perhaps alteration of Spanish verbasco, varbasco mullein, from Latin verbascum
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