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mescalin

mescalin is the alternative form of mescaline.

Meaning of mescaline

Noun

mescaline (usually uncountable, plural mescalines)

  1. (usually) A hallucinogenic and intoxicating compound present in the peyote cactus (Lophophora williamsii), the San Pedro cactus (Echinopsis pachanoi), and the Peruvian torch (Echinopsis peruviana).
    • We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers . . . and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw...1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, New York: Popular Library, →ISBN, page 4

Questions about mescalin

What is mescalin the alternative form of?
Mescalin is the alternative form of mescaline.

Words near mescalin in the dictionary

  1. mescal beans
  2. mescalbean
  3. mescalbeans
  4. Mescalero
  5. Mescaleros
  6. mescalin
  7. mescaline
  8. mescalines
  9. mescalism
  10. mescals
  11. Meschede

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