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cojoba

cojoba is the alternative form of cohoba.

Meaning of cohoba

Noun

cohoba (plural cohobas)

  1. A traditional Taino ceremony in which the ground seeds of the cojóbana tree were inhaled in a special pipe, producing a psychedelic effect.
  2. A hallucinogenic drug derived from ground seeds of trees of the genus Anadenanthera.
    • The native of some South American tribes use this drug as an aphrodisiac in the form of a snuff called cohoba.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 51

Forms of cojoba

pluralcojobas

Questions about cojoba

What is cojoba the alternative form of?
Cojoba is the alternative form of cohoba.

Words near cojoba in the dictionary

  1. coix
  2. coixseed
  3. Cojack
  4. Cojasca
  5. Cojedes
  6. cojoba
  7. cojobas
  8. Cojocaru
  9. Cojocna
  10. cojoin
  11. cojoined

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cojoba (page history and authors); cohoba (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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