guacos
Variant of guaco
guaco
definition
guaco (gwä′kō)
noun pl. guacos -·cos
any of several South American plants (genus Mikania of the composite family and genus Aristolochia of the birthwort family) used by the natives for asthma, snakebite, etc.
Etymology: AmSp, prob. < a Mayan language
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