toloache

• tolguacha, tolguache, toluache

From Mexican Spanish toloache, from Classical Nahuatl toloatzin, from toloa (“to bow the head”) + tzin (reverential).

• IPA^(key): /tɒlˈwæt͡ʃi/

toloache (uncountable)

1. The annual plant Datura inoxia.
2. A psychoactive, hallucinogenic preparation made from the plant.
   • 2000, Joseph C. Winter, Tobacco Use by Native North Americans: Sacred Smoke and Silent Killer‎, page 33:

     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.

• (plant): pricklyburr, recurved thorn-apple, downy thorn-apple, Indian-apple, lovache, moonflower, nacazcul, toloatzin, tolguache

• oothecal

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl toloatzin.

• IPA^(key): /toloˈat͡ʃe/ [t̪o.loˈa.t͡ʃe]
  • Rhymes: -atʃe
  • Syllabification: to‧lo‧a‧che
• IPA^(key): /toˈloa̯tʃe/

toloache m (uncountable)

1. toloache

• “toloache”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014