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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