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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hallucinogenic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
drug
▪ Caught up in these movements was the hippie culture of the period, with its involvement with hallucinogenic drugs.
▪ As he grew older, he used hallucinogenic drugs.
▪ Blake thought the burning incense could have been a hallucinogenic drug which was altering his perception.
▪ More worrying are the longer lasting psychological effects, usually associated with acid, that can be wrought by any hallucinogenic drug.
▪ As he was thought to have abused an hallucinogenic drug, he was given activated charcoal and sorbitol by nasogastric tube.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hallucinogenic mushrooms
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After all, in the hallucinogenic world of the militias, the government is the enemy of all things good and true.
▪ As he grew older, he used hallucinogenic drugs.
▪ Blake thought the burning incense could have been a hallucinogenic drug which was altering his perception.
▪ Caught up in these movements was the hippie culture of the period, with its involvement with hallucinogenic drugs.
▪ He found himself smiling. recalling yet again that first meeting, that strange, almost hallucinogenic evening.
▪ I think of some of them as being almost hallucinogenic.
▪ There was a sensation of a hallucinogenic door being swung open.
▪ You can get hallucinogenic everything in the jungle.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hallucinogenic

hallucinogenic \hal*lu"ci*no*gen`ic\ adj. 1. capable of producing hallucinations; as, LSD is a powerful hallucinogenic drug.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hallucinogenic

1952, from hallucinogen + -ic.

Wiktionary
hallucinogenic

a. producing hallucinations n. a substance that is a hallucinogen.

WordNet
hallucinogenic

adj. capable of producing hallucinations; "LSD is a powerful hallucinogenic drug"

Usage examples of "hallucinogenic".

They are all taking Maladrone, an antimalarial drug that for most fosters disturbing and hallucinogenic dreams.

I would like to repeat, in my defense, that I was at this time under the influence of bufotoxin, known for its hallucinogenic properties, as well as alcohol.

The fennel contained trace amounts of estragole, a mild hallucinogenic.

By directing the extrinsic and intrinsic levels of nonordinary reality, don Juan exploited the different hallucinogenic properties until they created in me, as the apprentice, the perception that non-ordinary reality was a perfectly defined area, a realm separate from ordinary, everyday life whose inherent properties were revealed as I went along.

Electrical discharges in the limbic system sometimes result in symptoms similar to those of psychoses or those produced by psychedelic or hallucinogenic drugs.

While working in that direction, I saw that don Juan himself had placed particular emphasis on a certain area of his teachings - specifically, the uses of hallucinogenic plants.

Her erotics, potions, dreaming jewels, and assorted wands lay within, and thin bags of hallucinogenic spore powder nestled along the edge of her saddle within easy reach.

But he was fumigating himself and his cab with a home-rolled cigarette that reeked of decent herbs, though possibly hallucinogenic.

They strapped me down to a leather-covered table and I was given an intravenous injection of the hallucinogenic drug.

Micky could have a brandy or two and not wind up, one year later, facedown in a puddle of vomit, her nasal cartilage rotted away by cocaine, with a lush crop of hallucinogenic mushrooms growing on the surface of her brain.

On drugs, long-haired, barefooted, radical, and on a bad trip, one shoots the other and tells some weird hallucinogenic story about guys in trench coats.

Of course, it's just an effect of the compound, the formula lacks any chocolate, alchohol, or hallucinogenic drugs, thus is completely untracable by modern science, because although it has the effects of inebriation, it cannot be medically proven.

There was a sort of visual naivety at work there that verged on the hallucinogenic, but it did, I'd argue, make a warped sort of visual sense.