cohoba

English

Alternative forms

• cojoba

Noun

cohoba (plural cohobas)

1. A traditional Taino ceremony in which the ground seeds of the cojóbana tree were inhaled in a special pipe, producing a psychedelic effect.
2. A hallucinogenic drug derived from ground seeds of trees of the genus Anadenanthera.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 51:

     The native of some South American tribes use this drug as an aphrodisiac in the form of a snuff called cohoba.

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: cohobas, cohobât

Verb

cohoba

1. third-person singular past historic of cohober

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈoba/ [koˈo.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -oba
• Syllabification: co‧ho‧ba

Noun

cohoba f (plural cohobas)

1. cohoba
2. Anadenanthera peregrina, a South American tree.

   Synonym: yopo