Wiktionary
n. (context organic compound English) An organic compound, 6-methyl-9,10-didehydro-ergoline-8-carboxylic acid, derived from an alkaloid found in ergot; its amide derivatives are widely used as pharmaceuticals and as hallucinogenic drugs (LSD).
WordNet
n. a crystalline acid often used in medical research; obtained from ergotic alkaloids
Wikipedia
Lysergic acid, also known as D-lysergic acid and (+)-lysergic acid, is a precursor for a wide range of ergoline alkaloids that are produced by the ergot fungus and found in the seeds of Turbina corymbosa (ololiuhqui), Argyreia nervosa ( Hawaiian Baby Woodrose), and Ipomoea tricolor ( morning glories, tlitliltzin). Amides of lysergic acid, lysergamides, are widely used as pharmaceuticals and as psychedelic drugs ( LSD). Lysergic acid received its name as it was a product of the lysis of various ergot alkaloids.
Usage examples of "lysergic acid".
Eighteen years later to the day, the day after my twenty-first birthday, he gave me my first dose of lysergic acid diethylamide under controlled conditions.
He said lysergic acid diethylamide was the last thing he had expected to find and he wanted to be sure, get a second opinion.
He beamed at Rachmael, showing huge gold-capped teeth, which, in the churning froth of excitation induced by the lysergic acid in his brain metabolism, Rachmael experienced as a display of revolting enormity, a disfigurement that made him clutch his cup of syn-cof and shut his eyes.
Very much like the CIA and lysergic acid, if you don't mind a favorite analogy of mine.
Doctor Crobe had been making lysergic acid and from it, lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD!
She had been preparing for the Ingolstadt festival for several months, buying only the top-quality tabs from the most reliable dealers, and she had crept into the geodesic Kool-Aid station only a few moments earlier, dumping enough pure lysergic acid diethylamicte to blow the minds of the population of a small country.
LACE (Lysergic Acid Crypto-Ethelene) can be made by mixing LSD with DMSO, a high penetrating agent, and water.
Despite extensive press coverage, the beats remained a tiny sect until a technological innovation--lysergic acid, better known as LSD--appeared on the scene.
His thoughts tailed off into a lysergic acid photography, fed by the adrenalin of weary fear, in which the tactical moves of the day to come were vivid with terror and exhaustion and capture.