dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/pey_MW.json
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{
"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"
}
}