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Definition of Guaco
1. n. A plant (Aristolochia anguicida) of Carthagena, used as an antidote to serpent bites.
Definition of Guaco
1. a tropical plant [n -COS]
Medical Definition of Guaco
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Guaco
Literary usage of Guaco
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1853)
"guaco powdered, j'ij.; spirit, ten. Oj. Mix., digest for eight days The part
bitten to be well rubbed with the tincture, or the stem of the plant, ..."
2. The Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1853)
"S. densa, Wall. S. lenta, Fr. S. ? Wall. Remarks on guaco-PLANTS. ... But the
fact is that nearly every country has its peculiar guaco. ..."
3. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1862)
"Dr. Adrian Stokes, of Stroud, mentions that the properties of ' guaco' have been
... Dr. Hobson, of Leeds, whom I°presented with a preparation of the guaco, ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"guaco, or Huaro, a name given in the tropical regions of America to several ...
Aristolochia guaco is euid to be the one most palace occupies the whole of ..."
5. Annals of Botany by IDEAL (Project) (1888)
"species of Aristolochia, where indeed the term is restricted to Aristolochia
odoratissima, L. Under the name of guaco more than one plant in Central and ..."
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