BARBASCO

barbasco, joewood, Jacquinia keyensis

(noun) West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

barbasco (countable and uncountable, plural barbascos)

A plant (Lonchocarpus urucu, now Deguelia rufescens var. urucu) native to parts of northern South America used as a poison for fishing and an insecticide.

An evergreen (Jacquinia barbasco, now Jacquinia arborea)

One of several inedible wild Mexican yams (Dioscorea mexicana and Dioscorea composita) from which progesterone can be synthesized.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

5 June 2025

UNDERLAY

(verb) raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type; “underlay the plate”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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