A tropical South American vine with poisonous properties, sometimes used medicinally.
From Tupi (an indigenous South American language), the native name for a particular plant species, entering English through natural history and botanical study.
Plant names give us one of the clearest windows into how English absorbed vocabulary from indigenous peoples worldwide—'abuta' traveled from the Amazon into botanical texts and eventually English dictionaries.
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