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par•i•ca



Pronunciation: (par'i-kä", -ku), [key]
—n.
a snuff used by certain Indians of South America containing dimethyltryptamine and other hallucinogenic agents, obtained from the seeds of the tree Piptadenia peregrina. Also called cohoba.

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