barbasco
noun
bar·bas·co
bärˈba(ˌ)skō,
-rˈbä-
variants or less commonly babasco
bäˈb-,
bəˈb-
plural -s
1
: wild cinnamon sense 1
2
: joewood
3
a
: any of various plants used by the Indians of northern South America in making fish poison
especially : cube entry 3 sense 1
b
: the poison (such as rotenone) contained in these plants
Word History
Etymology
American Spanish barbasco, perhaps alteration of Spanish verbasco, varbasco mullein, from Latin verbascum