caapi
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.24 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hallucinogen, obtained from the South American vine, Banisteriopsis caapi, used medicinally by the indigenous peoples of the Amazon.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The bundle of the caapi would presumably have quite lost its virtue from the same cause, and I do not know that it was ever analyzed chemically;"
- "No more interesting or complex narcotic drink can be found than ayahuasca, caapi, or yajé, prepared basically from the bark of the liana Banisteriopsis caapi."
- "A number of studies have confused ayahuasca, caapi, and yagé as substances other than Banisteriopsis caapi."
- "Describing some of the effects of caapi, which he took with the natives of an Amazon village, McGovern wrote: “Curiously enough, certain of the Indians fell into a particularly deep state of trance, in which they possessed what appeared to be telepathic powers."