ibogaine

[ ih-boh-guh-een ]

nounPharmacology.
  1. an alkaloid, C20H26N2O, obtained from an African shrub, Tabernanthe iboga, having antidepressant and hallucinogenic properties.

Origin of ibogaine

1
From French ibogaïne (1901), from New Latin iboga the shrub's specific epithet (said to be from an Indigenous language of the Congo) + French -ine -ine2

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