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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bar·ba·dos or Bar·ba·does  n. A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc.
 Barbados cherry Bot., a genus of trees of the West Indies (Malpighia) with an agreeably acid fruit resembling a cherry.
 Barbados leg Med., a species of elephantiasis incident to hot climates.
 Barbados nuts, the seeds of the Jatropha curcas, a plant growing in South America and elsewhere. The seeds and their acrid oil are used in medicine as a purgative. See Physic nut.