peyote
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peyote /peɪˈəʊti/
▶noun
- 1 a small, soft blue-green spineless cactus, native to Mexico and the southern US. [Lophophora williamsii.]
- 2 a hallucinogenic drug prepared from peyote, containing mescaline.
– origin C19: from Latin Amer. Sp., from Nahuatl peyotl.
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