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ebene

ebene noun: a psychoactive material, variously described as obtained from plants of either the genus Virola or of Anadenanthera peregrina, used ritually as snuff by the Yanomamo people of South America.

ebene: a psychoactive material, variously described as obtained from plants of either the genus Virola or...
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Noun

ebene (uncountable)

  1. A psychoactive material, variously described as obtained from plants of either the genus Virola or of Anadenanthera peregrina, used ritually as snuff by the Yanomamo people of South America.

Origin of ebene

From Yanomamö [Term?].

Questions about ebene

What does ebene mean?
Ebene means a psychoactive material, variously described as obtained from plants of either the genus Virola or of Anadenanthera peregrina, used ritually as snuff by the Yanomamo people of South America.
What part of speech is ebene?
Ebene is a noun.

Words near ebene in the dictionary

  1. Ebelings
  2. Ebels
  3. eben
  4. Eben am Achensee
  5. ebenaceous
  6. ebene
  7. ebeneous
  8. Ebenezer
  9. Ebenezer Scrooge
  10. Ebenezer Scrooges
  11. Ebenezers

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