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Mezcal
Mezcal, or
mescal, is a distilled alcoholic beverage made from the
maguey plant (a form of
agave,
Agave americana) native to
Mexico. The word
mezcal comes from
Nahuatl mexcalli metl and
ixcalli which means "oven-cooked agave".
mezcal
Noun
1. a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons
(synonym) mescal, peyote, Lophophora williamsii
(hypernym) cactus
(member-holonym) Lophophora, genus Lophophora
(part-meronym) mescal button, sacred mushroom, magic mushroom
Mezcal
(n.)
Same as Mescal.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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