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psilocybin Chem.|saɪləʊˈsaɪbɪn|
[a. G. psilocybin (A. Hofmann et al. 1958, in Experientia XIV. 108), f. mod.L. psilocybe (see below), f. Gr. ψῑλός bare, smooth + κύβη head: see -in1.]
An alkaloid, C12H15N2O·H2PO3, which is the phosphate ester of psilocin and is the hallucinogen present in several Central American species of mushroom (notably Psilocybe mexicana), producing effects similar to those of LSD but less strongly and for a shorter time.
1958A. Hofmann et al. in Experientia XIV. 109/1 The compound has been given the name Psilocybin; it possesses indole characteristics and contains phosphorus. 1962A. Huxley Let. 18 Sept. (1969) 939 Mescalin, LSD and psilocybin all produce a state of affairs in which verbalizing and conceptualizing are in some sort bypassed. One can talk about the experience—but always with the knowledge that ‘the rest is silence’. 1966T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 i. 17 Effects of LSD-25, mescaline, psilocybin, and related drugs on a large sample of suburban housewives. 1970K. Platt Pushbutton Butterfly (1971) iv. 43 He would be selling grass, meth, acid..psilocybin-coated grass, peyote buttons. 1975[see psilocin]. |