{
  "peyote button":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": one of the dried discoid tops of the peyote cactus":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1921, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-133321"
  },
  "peyote":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a hallucinogenic drug containing mescaline that is derived from the dried discoid tops of a cactus ( Lophophora williamsii ) and is used especially in the religious ceremonies of some American Indian peoples \u2014 see peyote button":[],
      ": a small, low, spineless cactus ( Lophophora williamsii ) of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico with rounded stems having jointed tubercles with tufts of usually woolly hairs":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "p\u0101-\u02c8\u014dt-\u0113",
      "p\u0101-\u02c8\u014d-t\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Among the sources of these psychoactive substances is peyote , which has been used by Native Americans for thousands of years. \u2014 Louis Metzger Iv, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "Apache, Huichol, Utes, Comanche, and Navajo peoples are among the current heirs of peyote \u2019s ancient discoverers and stewards of its spiritual and medicinal uses. \u2014 Louis Metzger Iv, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "Unlike other psychedelics such as peyote or ayahuasca, which are grounded in centuries of traditions involving Indigenous peoples, Bufo\u2019s usage is thought to be more recent. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Mar. 2022",
      "The usual suspects: caffeine, pot, heroin, cocaine, peyote , LSD, psilocybin. \u2014 Bob Odenkirk, The New Yorker , 21 Feb. 2022",
      "Mexico is home to numerous shamanic rituals involving psychoactive substances, such as psilocybin and peyote ; farther south, communities in the Amazon have been brewing ayahuasca for centuries. \u2014 The New Yorker , 21 Mar. 2022",
      "Lophophora williamsii\u2014 peyote \u2014which contain the oldest psychedelic medicine known to man. \u2014 Jesse Will, Outside Online , 15 Mar. 2022",
      "Gagliano participates in a peyote ceremony in which the villagers chant before a fire. \u2014 Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com , 6 Jan. 2022",
      "The 1993 law was Congress' reaction to a 1990 Supreme Court ruling that Native Americans did not have a constitutional right to take the hallucinogenic drug, peyote . \u2014 Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News , 11 Nov. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Mexican Spanish peyote , from Nahuatl peyotl peyote cactus":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1849, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-135255"
  },
  "peyote cult":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an American Indian religious society or form of worship centering around the sacramental use of peyote":[],
      ": peyotism":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-164918"
  },
  "peyote dance":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an ecstatic fertility dance of the Huichol and Tarahumara Indians of northern Mexico with visions induced by eating the peyote button":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-165849"
  },
  "Peyerian gland":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": peyer's patch":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "(\u02c8)p\u012b\u00a6ir\u0113\u0259n-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "peyerian from Johann K. Peyer \u20201712 Swiss physician and anatomist + English -an":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-002655"
  }
}