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Plant used as an antidote for snakebites
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guaco
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n. 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.
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Guaco \Gua"co\, n. [Sp.] (Bot.) A plant ( Aristolochia anguicida ) of Carthagena, used as an antidote to serpent bites. --Lindley. The Mikania Guaco , of Brazil, used for the same purpose.
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Guaco , huaco , or guao , also vejuco and bejuco are terms applied to various vine-like Central American , South American , and West Indian climbing plants, reputed to have curative powers. Several species in the genus Mikania are among those referred to ...