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- noun A
perennial South American tree , Anadenanthera peregrina, that has a number of traditional uses
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Examples
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Schultes asked, thinking that yá-kee might just be another name for yopo.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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Schultes asked, thinking that yá-kee might just be another name for yopo.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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Issues that swam to the surface as I was being dashed about on that yopo ocean.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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Were they intrinsic to the plants from which ayahuasca and yopo were derived, an example of an abiding botanical intelligence amplified and made comprehensible by an interfacing of vegetative alkaloids with human neurons?
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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He ran his tongue over his palate, tasting the bitter film left by parrot goulash and yopo vomit.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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Were they intrinsic to the plants from which ayahuasca and yopo were derived, an example of an abiding botanical intelligence amplified and made comprehensible by an interfacing of vegetative alkaloids with human neurons?
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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He ran his tongue over his palate, tasting the bitter film left by parrot goulash and yopo vomit.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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Issues that swam to the surface as I was being dashed about on that yopo ocean.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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The botanical identity of yopo, Anadenanthera peregrina, had been determined by Richard Spruce in June 1854.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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On this one expedition to and beyond the source of the Río Negro, Spruce described the making of coca powder, identified the botanical source of yagé, and collected for the first time the seeds of yopo, a powerful hallucinogenic snuff deived from the tree Anadenanthera peregrina.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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