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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