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usually uncountable, plural ayahuascas
A giant vine native to South America (especially Banisteriopsis caapi), noted for its psychotropic properties. examples
Any of various psychoactive infusions or decoctions prepared from this vine. quotations examples
As the Amazon forest people would take ayahuasca and enter into that place of Group Mind where they would make decisions for the tribe, the psychedelic shamanic acts that McKenna was promulgating would involve the experience of ecstasy and the contemplation of wholeness.
2004, Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home […] , Simon & Schuster, page 414
Like many young women in that cultural era, she was excited to explain ayahuasca, and informed me that her appointment was scheduled for next week, when she would be leaving New York to visit family in Rio.
2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books