barbasco

English

Etymology

From American Spanish barbasco, perhaps alteration of Spanish verbasco, varbasco (“mullein”), from Latin verbascum.

Noun

barbasco (countable and uncountable, plural barbascos)

1. 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.
2. An evergreen (Jacquinia barbasco, now Jacquinia arborea)
3. One of several inedible wild Mexican yams (Dioscorea mexicana and Dioscorea composita) from which progesterone can be synthesized.

See also

• cubé resin
• cubé (Derris utilis, syn. Lonchocarpus utilis)

Further reading

• Lonchocarpus+utilis at The Plant List

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baʁˈbas.ku/ [baɦˈbas.ku]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baʁˈbas.ku/ [baɦˈbas.ku]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /baɾˈbas.ku/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /baʁˈbaʃ.ku/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /baɻˈbas.ko/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐɾˈbaʃ.ku/ [bɐɾˈβaʃ.ku]

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -asku, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -aʃku
• Hyphenation: bar‧bas‧co

Noun

barbasco m (plural barbascos)

1. figwort (plant of family Scrophulariaceae)