ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Barbasco

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Barbasco is a noun meaning An evergreen (Jacquinia barbasco, now Jacquinia arborea).

Meaning

An evergreen (Jacquinia barbasco, now Jacquinia arborea).

More Meanings

  1. One of several inedible wild Mexican yams (Dioscorea mexicana and Dioscorea composita) from which progesterone can be synthesized.
  2. 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.

Word Forms

Synonyms for barbasco

Depending on context, synonyms include joewood.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include joewood, babasco, jaboticaba, curari, bacupari, sapucainha.

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