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bar·basco (bär bas′kō)

noun pl. barbascos -·cos or barbascoes -·coes

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

Etymology: AmSp, altered < verbasco, mullein < L verbascum

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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