cohoba

cohoba
/koh hoh"beuh/, n.
parica.
[ < AmerSp, said to be < Arawak]

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drug
also called  Yopo,  

      hallucinogenic snuff made from the seeds of a tropical American tree (Piptadenia peregrina) and used by Indians of the Caribbean and South America at the time of early Spanish explorations. DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine) and bufotenine (qq.v.) are thought to have been the active principles. Cohoba was inhaled deeply by means of special bilateral tubes.

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