| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| ayahuasca |
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| SYLLABICATION: | a·ya·hua·sca |
| PRONUNCIATION: |    y -wä sk, äy- |
| NOUN: | A hallucinogenic brew made from the bark and stems of a tropical South American vine of the genus Banisteriopsis, especially B. caapi, mixed with other psychotropic plants, used especially in shamanistic rituals by certain Amazonian Indian peoples. | | ETYMOLOGY: | American Spanish, from Quechua, rope of the dead, narcotic : aya, corpse + huasca, rope.
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