Definitions for barbasco

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barbasco bar·bas·co

Spelling: [bahr-bas-koh, -bah-skoh]

IPA: /bɑrˈbæs koʊ, -ˈbɑ skoʊ/

Barbasco is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 212 anagrams from letters in barbasco (aabbcors).

Definitions for barbasco

noun

1. 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.
2. any similar plant yielding a substance that stuns or kills fish.
3. the fish-stunning or fish-killing substance obtained from these plants.

Origin of barbasco

1855-60; American Spanish, said to be alteration of verbasco mullein Latin verbascum

Examples for barbasco

They catch fish with bone hooks, seines, spears, and by poisoning the water with barbasco.

The Savanerics poison pools with pounded leaves of the barbasco, and thus obtain fish without much labor.