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单词 mescal
释义 mescal
 /me skal"/,  n.  
  1. an intoxicating beverage distilled from the fermented juice of certain species of agave.
  2. any agave yielding this spirit.
  3. Also called peyote. either of two species of spineless, dome-shaped cactus, Lophophora williamsii or L. diffusa, of Texas and northern Mexico, yielding the hallucinogen peyote.
 [1695-1705, Amer.; < MexSp mescal, mezcal, mexcal < Nahuatl mexcalli intoxicant distilled from agave (perh. equiv. to me(tl) maguey + (i)xcalli something cooked)]
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