Associations to the word «Peyote»

Wiktionary

PEYOTE, noun. A small, spineless cactus (Lophophora williamsii) found from southwest United States to central Mexico that produces buttonlike tubercles that can be chewed for its psychedelic effect, primarily from the drug mescaline.
PEYOTE, noun. A mescal button produced by the plant.

Dictionary definition

PEYOTE, noun. A small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons.
PEYOTE, noun. The hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats