The disc-shaped dried tops of the peyote cactus, eaten or chewed for their hallucinogenic effects.
麦斯凯尔珠
Example sentencesExamples
Ritual is the bomb, and seems to be a method of obtaining religious experience, as much a drug as whirling dervishes dances or peyote buttons.
I just looked him in the eyes and gave him the simple truth, that during the summer a friend had given me a shopping bag full of peyote buttons he had picked in the desert in the southwest.
Definition of peyote buttons in US English:
peyote buttons
plural noun
The disk-shaped dried tops of the peyote cactus, eaten or chewed for their hallucinogenic effects.
麦斯凯尔珠
Also called mescal buttons
Example sentencesExamples
Ritual is the bomb, and seems to be a method of obtaining religious experience, as much a drug as whirling dervishes dances or peyote buttons.
I just looked him in the eyes and gave him the simple truth, that during the summer a friend had given me a shopping bag full of peyote buttons he had picked in the desert in the southwest.