| 词汇 | mescal button |
| 词源 | mescal button. A dried, buttonlike top of a mescal of the ge- nus Lophophora, long used as a hallucinogen by certain south- western Indians during religious ceremonies. The word, first recorded in 1885, is ultimately from the Nahuatl mexcalli, for “an intoxicant distilled from agave.” |
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