mescaline

English

Alternative forms

• mescalin

Etymology

From mescal (“peyote”) + -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛs.kəl.ɪn/, /ˈmɛs.kə.liːn/

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• antimescaline

Translations

the drug

• Esperanto: meskalino
• German: Meskalin (de) n
• Russian: мескали́н (ru) m (meskalín)
• Swedish: meskalin n

References

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

Anagrams

• camelines

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛs.ka.lin/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

mescaline f (uncountable)

1. mescaline

Further reading

• “mescaline”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012