magic mushroom

magic mushroom
noun
the button-shaped top of the mescal cactus; a source of psilocybin
Hypernyms: ↑plant organ
Part Holonyms: ↑mescal, ↑mezcal, ↑peyote, ↑Lophophora williamsii
Substance Meronyms: ↑mescaline, ↑peyote

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ˌmagic ˈmushroom f16 [magic mushroom] (BrE or becoming old-fashioned, NAmE) (NAmE usually informal shroom ; ) noun
a type of ↑mushroom that has an effect like some drugs and that may make people who eat it ↑hallucinate (= see things that are not there)
See also:shroom

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