yage
or ya·je
[yah-hey]
noun
a mildly hallucinogenic drug obtained from a South American vine, Banisteriopsis caapi.
Origin of yage
First recorded in 1920–25, yage is from the American Spanish word yagé, apparently < an indigenous language of SE Colombia or NE Peru
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