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Hallucinogen

Definition: Hallucinogen

Hallucinogen

Noun

1. A psychoactive drug that induces hallucinations or altered sensory experiences.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Hallucinogen

DomainDefinitions

Botanical

A substance producing visions, illusions, etc. Andira, Argemone, Datura, Myristica, Pachira, Piptadenia, Piscidia, Rivea. (references)

Medicine

A hallucination-producing drug, a category of drugs producing this effect. . . . the user of a hallucinogenic drug is almost invariably aware that what he is seeing are hallucinations. . Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Hallucinogen

Synonyms: hallucinogenic drug (n), psychedelic drug (n), psychodelic drug (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Hallucinogen

English words defined with "hallucinogen": angel dusthash, hashishPCP, phencyclidine, phencyclidine hydrochloride. (references)
Specialty definitions using "hallucinogen": 3,4-MethylenedioxyamphetamineN,N-Dimethyltryptamine, N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Hallucinogen" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (hallucinogenic), Swedish (hallucinogen).

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Commercial Usage: Hallucinogen

DomainTitle

Books

  • Haoma and Harmaline: The Botanical Identity of the Sacred Hallucinogen 'Somo' and Its Legacy in Religion, Language, and Middle Eastern Folklore (reference)

  • Lsd, Pcp, and Hallucinogen Drug Dangers (Drug Dangers) (reference)

  • Soma: The Divine Hallucinogen (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Hallucinogen

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder. (references)

Chemically, MDMA is similar to the stimulant amphetamine and the hallucinogen mescaline. (references)

LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is one of the major drugs making up the hallucinogen class. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Hallucinogen

"Hallucinogen" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hallucinogen" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%9117,287

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hallucinogen

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

hallucinogen

58

hallucinogen nutmeg

5

hallucinogen mushroom

4

hallucinogen legal

3

hallucinogen herb

2

drug hallucinogen

2

coleus hallucinogen

2

hallucinogen picture

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hallucinogen

Language Translations for "hallucinogen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

hallucinogène (hallucinogenic, hallucinogenic drug), produit hallucinogène (hallucinogenic drug). (various references)

   

German

  

halluzinogen (hallucinogenic). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παραισθησιογόνο. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

幻覚剤 (LSD). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

'"かくざい (LSD). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allucinogenhay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

галлюциноген, вызывающее галлюцинации, вещество (anticoagulants, injurant, material, matter, sternutator, stuff, substance). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

alucinógeno. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hallucinogen. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

halisünasyon yapan ilaç. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

галюциноген (hallucinant). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Hallucinogen

Derivations

Words beginning with "hallucinogen": hallucinogenic, hallucinogenics, hallucinogens. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Hallucinogen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hallucinagen, hallucingen, hallucinogin, halucinogen. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Hallucinogen

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-h-i-l-l-n-n-o-u"

-3 letters: allogenic, chelonian, collegian, congenial, enhaloing, guilloche, halocline, hulloaing, launching.

-4 letters: canoeing, cleaning, collagen, collegia, enlacing, eulachon, halloing, helloing, hollaing, hulloing, lanoline, leaching, longline, luncheon, lunching, nonlegal, nucleoli, ungenial, unlacing.

-5 letters: alencon, allonge, aneling, angelic, anglice, anguine, calling, cannoli, cauline, celling, challie, chalone, channel, chignon, chinone, choline, cingula, cloning, clueing, coaling, coinage, collage, congeal, culling, cullion, eanling, echoing, enchain, encinal, eulogia, galenic, gallein, galleon, ghoulie, gouache, guanine, halogen, haloing, hauling, healing, helical, helicon, helling, hellion, hulling, inocula, lancing, lanolin, leaning, leching, ligulae, linguae, lingual, loaning, lochial, logical, nilghau, nucelli, nucleal, nuclein, nucleon, nulling, ouching, unagile, unchain, uncinal, unclean, unhinge.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-h-i-l-l-n-n-o-u"
 

+1 letter: hallucinogens.

 

+2 letters: hallucinogenic.

 

+3 letters: hallucinogenics.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Hallucinogen


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 61 6C 6C 75 63 69 6E 6F 67 65 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100001 01101100 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101001 01101110 01101111 01100111 01100101 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#117 &#99 &#105 &#110 &#111 &#103 &#101 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 006C 006C 0075 0063 0069 006E 006F 0067 0065 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

426778788769758081737180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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