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单词 sotol
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Definition of sotol in English:

sotol

noun ˈsəʊtəʊlˈsōtōl
mass noun
  • 1A North American desert plant of the agave family, with spiny-edged leaves and small white flowers.

    Genus Dasylirion, family Agavaceae: several species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • An alternative derivation is from the Apache word tezlingo which refers to a native plant, probably sotol, and the alcoholic drink made from it.
    • Bleached stalks of agave and sotol pierce the cloudless blue sky.
    • The snow over the desert clarified both the colors and the forms of its plants - Mormon tea, sotol, lechuguilla, leatherstem, acacias - and the hard frost retained the tracks of javelina.
    • The sugary trunks and leaf bases of Wheeler sotol have been used to feed cattle during droughts.
    1. 1.1 An alcoholic drink made from the sap of the sotol plant.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Like its cousins, Tequila and Mezcal, Sotol has its own denomination of origin.
      • Rattlesnake, having skin and head and tail removed, is fermented in sotol for serious foot infections.
      • Although the process is similar to that used for mezcal, sotol is not a mezcal, since it is not made from agave.

Origin

Late 19th century: via American Spanish from Nahuatl tzotolli.

 
 

Definition of sotol in US English:

sotol

nounˈsōtōl
  • 1A North American desert plant of the agave family, with spiny-edged leaves and small white flowers.

    Genus Dasylirion, family Agavaceae: several species, including smooth-leaf sotol (D. leiophyllum)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The sugary trunks and leaf bases of Wheeler sotol have been used to feed cattle during droughts.
    • Bleached stalks of agave and sotol pierce the cloudless blue sky.
    • An alternative derivation is from the Apache word tezlingo which refers to a native plant, probably sotol, and the alcoholic drink made from it.
    • The snow over the desert clarified both the colors and the forms of its plants - Mormon tea, sotol, lechuguilla, leatherstem, acacias - and the hard frost retained the tracks of javelina.
    1. 1.1 An alcoholic drink made from the sap of the sotol.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Rattlesnake, having skin and head and tail removed, is fermented in sotol for serious foot infections.
      • Like its cousins, Tequila and Mezcal, Sotol has its own denomination of origin.
      • Although the process is similar to that used for mezcal, sotol is not a mezcal, since it is not made from agave.

Origin

Late 19th century: via American Spanish from Nahuatl tzotolli.

 
 
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