toloache
/tɒlˈwæt͡ʃi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Three related tribes, the Costanoan, Esselen, and Salinan, living along the California coast to the south of San Francisco Bay used tobacco and toloache (datura). Toloache was taken for vision quests and to initiate boys into manhood."
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish toloache, from Classical Nahuatl toloatzin, from toloa (“to bow the head”) + tzin (reverential). Doublet of toloatzin.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
pricklyburr
recurved thorn-apple
downy thorn-apple
Indian-apple
lovache
moonflower
nacazcul
toloatzin
tolguache