sacred mushroom

sacred mushroom

n 1. (Plants) any of various hallucinogenic mushrooms, esp species of Psilocybe and Amanita, that have been eaten in rituals in various parts of the world 2. (Plants) a mescal button, used in a similar way

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sacred mushroom - the button-shaped top of the mescal cactus; a source of psilocybinmagic mushroom, mescal buttonmescaline, peyote - the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttonsLophophora williamsii, mescal, mezcal, peyote - a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttonsplant organ - a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus