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单词 niopo
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niopon.

Brit. /niːˈəʊpəʊ/, U.S. /niˈoʊpoʊ/
Forms: 1800s– niopo, 1900s– ñopa, 1900s– ñopo, 1900s– ñupa.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Otamaco. Etymons: French niopo; Otamaco niopo.
Etymology: < French niopo (1821 in the passage translated in quot. 1821) and its etymon Otamaco niopo. Compare yopo n.
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.
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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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