Etymology

barbasco

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Spanish barbasco ← Latin verbascum
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  1. Latin · derived fromverbascum
  2. Spanish · derived fromverbasco
  3. Spanish · borrowed frombarbasco
  4. English todaybarbasco

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

Words from the same roots

Latinverbascum all →

verbascum

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.