Meanings
alternative tolguacha · alternative tolguache · alternative toluache
- uncountableAngel's trumpet, an annual plant of species Datura inoxia.
- uncountableA psychoactive, hallucinogenic preparation made from the plant.
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.
2000, Joseph C. Winter, Tobacco Use by Native North Americans: Sacred Smoke and Silent Killer, page 33
Synonyms & antonyms
plant
Origin
- Classical Nahuatltoloatzin
- Spanishtoloache
- Englishtoloache
Borrowed from Spanish toloache, from Classical Nahuatl toloatzin, from toloa (“to bow the head”) + tzin (reverential). Doublet of toloatzin.
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Cite this entry
toloache. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/toloache
“toloache.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/toloache. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “toloache,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/toloache.
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