pe|yo|te

pe|yo|te «pay OH tee; Spanish pay YOH tay», noun.

1. the mescal or any one of several other cacti.

2. a stimulating drug contained in the small buttonlike tops of the mescal, used by Indians in Mexico and the southwest United States; mescaline. It induces hallucinations and reactions associated with psychoses. »

That's what's so bad about peyote. It can make sick people well, and that's how it gets converts (New Yorker).

╂[American English < Mexican Spanish peyote < Nahuatl peyotl]