ALL meanings of barbasco
bar·bas·co
B b - noun barbasco an evergreen South American plant, Jacquinia barbasco, which produces a poison harmless to humans but useful for stunning fish to make them easy to catch 3
- noun barbasco any of a variety of South American plants producing similar poisons 3
- noun barbasco the poison produced by barbasco plants 3
- noun barbasco any of several Mexican plants (genus Dioscorea) of the yam family having a large, inedible root that yields extracts used in making synthetic steroidal hormones 3
- noun barbasco 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. 1
- noun plural barbasco a shrub or small tree, Jacquinia barbasco, of tropical America, the source of a substance used to stun fish so they can be caught easily. 1
- noun plural barbasco any similar plant yielding a substance that stuns or kills fish. 1
- noun plural barbasco the fish-stunning or fish-killing substance obtained from these plants. 1
- noun barbasco An evergreen (Jacquinia barbasco, now Jacquinia arborea). 0
- noun barbasco One of several inedible wild Mexican yams (Dioscorea mexicana and Dioscorea composita) from which progesterone can be synthesized. 0