Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cohoba

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: co-ho-ba
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A traditional Taino ceremony in which the ground seeds of the cojóbana tree were inhaled in a special pipe, producing a psychedelic effect.

noun

A hallucinogenic drug derived from ground seeds of trees of the genus Anadenanthera.

Example Sentences

"The native of some South American tribes use this drug as an aphrodisiac in the form of a snuff called cohoba."

Inflected Forms

cohobas (plural) cojoba (alternative)

Questions

What does cohoba mean?: A traditional Taino ceremony in which the ground seeds of the cojóbana tree were inhaled in a special pipe, producing a psychedelic effect.

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