cohoba

plural cohobas · alternative cojoba

1. A traditional Taino ceremony in which the ground seeds of the cojóbana tree were inhaled in a special pipe, producing a psychedelic effect.
2. A hallucinogenic drug derived from ground seeds of trees of the genus Anadenanthera.

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

   1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 51