cohoba

[koh-hoh-buh]

noun

1. parica.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cohoba¹

From Latin American Spanish (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico), of Arawakan origin; compare Taino cohoba “cohoba, tobacco”

Example Sentences

A Taino leader would have perceived the presence of a zemi in the tree that was carved into this show’s most exquisite object: a ritual vessel in the form of a crouching, grimacing deity, standing a little over two feet tall and meant to hold a hallucinogenic powder known as cohoba.

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In South America, long before Columbus, witch doctors took cohoba snuff to converse with gods and the dead.

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Tabaco, the pipe used in smoking the cohoba.

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Cohóba, the native name of tobacco.

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He gave it the name of Cohoba Cohobba, Gioia.

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