babasco

English

Noun

babasco (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of barbasco.
    • 1915, Thomas Whiffen, The North-West Amazons:
      They dam the stream with a wattle fencing and then throw the mashed babasco in above this fish weir. The fish frequently jump out of the water, gasping as though they were being strangled, and the Indians secure those distressed fish […]
    • 1939, John William Page, From Hunter to Husbandman (page 29)
      Some of the tribes of the upper Amazon used a poison obtained from the roots of babasco.

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