toloache
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Etymology edit
From Mexican Spanish toloache, from Classical Nahuatl toloatzin, from toloa (“to bow the head”) + tzin (reverential).
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Noun edit
toloache (uncountable)
- The annual plant Datura inoxia.
- A psychoactive, hallucinogenic preparation made from the plant.
- 2000, Joseph C. Winter, Tobacco Use by Native North Americans: Sacred Smoke and Silent Killer[1], page 33:
- Three related tribes, the Costanoan, Esselen, and Salinan, living along the California coast to the south of San Francisco Bay used tobacco and toloache (datura). Toloache was taken for vision quests and to initiate boys into manhood.
Synonyms edit
- (plant): pricklyburr, recurved thorn-apple, downy thorn-apple, Indian-apple, lovache, moonflower, nacazcul, toloatzin, tolguache
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl toloatzin.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /toloˈat͡ʃe/ [t̪o.loˈa.t͡ʃe]
- Rhymes: -atʃe
- Syllabification: to‧lo‧a‧che
- IPA(key): /toˈloa̯tʃe/
Noun edit
toloache m (uncountable)
Further reading edit
- “toloache”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014