barbascon.
/bɑːˈbaskəʊ/ The popular name of a variety of South American plants, chiefly of the family Lonchocarpus, the roots of which yield a poison; hence, the poison obtained from such a plant.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding poison > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding poison > barbasco
barbasco1860
necklace wood1883
1860 M. Reid Odd People 53 They [sc. the Amazonian Indians]..fish with a harpoon spear..and sometimes by poisoning the water with the juice of a vine called barbasco.
1860 M. Reid Odd People 61 The deadly poisons of barbasco and mavacure.
1934 Discovery Sept. 251/1 Whereas such insect controls as Derris root..and Barbasco (Lonchocarpus nicon) are definitely exotic, pyrethrum is at home almost anywhere in the temperate zone.
1957 Dorland's Illustr. Med. Dict. (ed. 23) 166/2 Barbasco, tropical plants, Jacquinia paramensis and Paullinia pinnata: used as fish poisons.
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