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Peyote

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Noun

1. lophophora williamsii, mescal, mezcal, peyote

a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons

2. mescaline, peyote

the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Peyote

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noun
another name for mescal (sense 1)

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Peyote

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noun
mescal (sense 3)
: also peyotl (peɪˈoʊtəl ; pāōtˈ'l)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Peyote

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n.
1. A spineless, dome-shaped cactus (Lophophora williamsii) native to Mexico and the southwest United States, having buttonlike tubercles that contain the hallucinogen mescaline and are traditionally used in rituals by certain Native American peoples. Also called mescal.
2. Peyote buttons.

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