| 单词 | niopo | 
| 释义 | niopon.  A hallucinogenic snuff used by certain South American Indian peoples, prepared from the seeds of the tree  Anadenanthera peregrina (family  Mimosaceae ( Leguminosae)) and related species. Cf. yopo n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > 			[noun]		 > a) narcotic drug(s) > miscellaneous narcotic drugs from plants henbane?a1425 metel1528 datura1598 carpese1605 cabbage bark1777 majoun1780 lettuce opium1799 stramonium1802 niopo1821 tea oil1837 khat1858 pituri1861 steppe rue1881 ololiuqui1894 toloache1894 yopo1916 mellow yellow1966 1821    H. M. Williams tr.  A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. V.  viii. xxiv. 662  				The Otomac holds this dish, which has a handle, in his right hand, while he inhales the niopo by the nose, through a forked bone of a bird, the two extremities of which are applied to the nostrils. 1860    M. Reid Odd People 134  				Snuffing the niopo is not exclusively confined to the Mundrucu. 1900    W. A. N. Dorland Amer. Illustr. Med. Dict. 444/1  				Niopo-snuff... An intoxicating snuff made from the seeds of Piptadenia peregrina, a tree of tropical America. 1916    Jrnl. Washington Acad. Sci. 6 561  				Spruce witnessed the preparation of ñopa snuff..in June, 1854. 1953    E. Fitzgerald tr.  A. Gheerbrant Impossible Adventure  ii. 127  				The old man next to me stretched out an arm, feet in a wickerware basket,..and produced his supply of niopo. 1969    R. R. Lingeman Drugs from A to Z 204  				A hallucinogenic snuff is made by South American Indians by pulverizing the seeds of the legumes Piptadenia peregrina, P. colubrina, and P. macrocarpa... Among different tribes it is known variously as yopo, niopo, cohoba, and huilca. 1984    J. G. Howells  & M. L. Osborn Ref. Compan. to Hist. of Abnormal Psychol. 679  				Niopo...is used by Indian tribes in Latin America to produce intoxication and hallucinations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < | 
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