muscimol
English
Etymology
From German Muscimol, from Latin musc(arius) (in Amanita muscaria) + im(ine) + -ol.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmʌskɪmɒl/, /ˈmʌsɪmɒl/
Noun
muscimol (uncountable)
- (biochemistry) A hallucinogenic alkaloid present in the fly agaric and other related fungi; 3-hydroxy-5-aminomethylisoxazole. [from 20th c.]
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 66:
- The organopsychedelic muscimole, an isoxazole-alkaloid derived from Amanita muscaria, a.k.a. the fly agaric mushroom […] .