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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