toloache

English

Alternative forms

• tolguacha, tolguache, toluache

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish toloache, from Classical Nahuatl toloatzin, from toloa (“to bow the head”) + tzin (reverential). Doublet of toloatzin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɒlˈwæt͡ʃi/

Noun

toloache (uncountable)

1. Angel's trumpet, an annual plant of species Datura inoxia.
2. A psychoactive, hallucinogenic preparation made from the plant.
   • 2000, Joseph C. Winter, Tobacco Use by Native North Americans: Sacred Smoke and Silent Killer‎, page 33:

     Three related tribes, the Costanoan, Esselen, and Salinan, living along the California coast to the south of San Francisco Bay used tobacco and toloache (datura). Toloache was taken for vision quests and to initiate boys into manhood.

Synonyms

• (plant): pricklyburr, recurved thorn-apple, downy thorn-apple, Indian-apple, lovache, moonflower, nacazcul, toloatzin, tolguache

Anagrams

• oothecal

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl toloatzin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toloˈat͡ʃe/ [t̪o.loˈa.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -atʃe
• Syllabification: to‧lo‧a‧che

Noun

toloache m (uncountable)

1. toloache

Further reading

• “toloache”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10