| 单词 | niopo |
| 释义 | niopo|niːˈəʊpəʊ|
[Native name.]
A narcotic snuff used by certain South American Indian peoples, prepared from the seeds of the tropical American trees, Piptadenia peregrina and related species. Also attrib.
1860Mayne Reid Odd People 134 Snuffing the niopo is not exclusively confined to the Mundrucu. Ibid., The niopo-taker who has one [sc. a device for taking snuff, made from the forked bone of a bird], esteems it as the most valuable item of his apparatus. 1900Dorland Med. Dict. 444/1 Niopo-snuff... An intoxicating snuff made from the seeds of Piptadenia peregrina, a tree of tropical America. 1966New Scientist 21 Apr. 156/1 Some natives of tropical America use a snuff made from seeds of the tree Piptadenia peregrina... This is called cohoba, niopo or parica. 1969R. R. Lingeman Drugs from A to Z 204 A hallucinogenic snuff is made by South American Indians by pulverizing the seeds of the legumes Piptadenia peregrina, P. colubrina, and P. macrocarpa... Among different tribes it is known variously as yopo, niopo, cohoba, and huilca. These tribes are centered in the Orinoco basin of Columbia and Venezuela and in the Peruvian Andes. |
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