mescalineとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• mescalin

語源

From mescal (“peyote”) +‎ -ine.

発音

• IPA: /ˈmɛs.kəl.ɪn/, /ˈmɛs.kə.liːn/

名詞

mescaline (usually uncountable, plural mescalines)

1. (biochemistry) A hallucinogenic and intoxicating compound present in the peyote cactus (Lophophora williamsii), the San Pedro cactus (Echinopsis pachanoi), and the Peruvian torch (Echinopsis peruviana).
   • 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, New York: Popular Library, →ISBN, page 4:

     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 ether and two dozen amyls.

参照

• “mescaline”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “mescaline”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “mescaline”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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