guaco

From Spanish guaco, from a Native American language.

guaco (countable and uncountable, plural guacos)

1. Any of various vine-like climbing plants of Central and South America and the West Indies, including Mikania and Aristolochia species, reputed to have curative powers.

• bejuco, guao, huaco, vejuco

• Mikania congesta

• cagou

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwako/ [ˈɡwa.ko]
• Rhymes: -ako
• Syllabification: gua‧co

guaco m (plural guacos)

1. guaco

• → English: guaco

• “guaco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014