Usually means: Root used as fish poison.
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  1. barbasco: Merriam-Webster
  2. barbasco: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. barbasco: Collins English Dictionary
  4. barbasco: Vocabulary.com
  5. barbasco: Wordnik
  6. barbasco: Wiktionary
  7. barbasco: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. barbasco: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. barbasco: Dictionary.com
  10. Barbasco: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. barbasco: Rhymezone
  12. barbasco: FreeDictionary.org
  13. barbasco: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. barbasco: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (barbasco)

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

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