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NOUN (2)

1. a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons;
[syn: mescal, mezcal, peyote, Lophophora williamsii]

2. a colorless Mexican liquor distilled from fermented juices of certain desert plants of the genus Agavaceae (especially the century plant);


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Maguey \Mag"uey\, n. [Sp. maguey, Mexican maguei and metl.] (Bot.) Any of several species of Agave, such as the century plant (Agave Americana), a plant requiring many years to come to maturity and blossoming only once before dying; and the Agave atrovirens, a Mexican plant used especially for making pulque, the source of the colorless Mexican liquor mescal; and the cantala (Agave cantala), a Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine. See Agave. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] 2. A hard fibre used in making coarse twine, derived from the Philippine Agave cantala (Agave cantala); also called cantala. [WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Mescal \Mes*cal"\, n. [Sp.] A distilled liquor prepared in Mexico from a species of agave. See Agave. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Agave \A*ga"ve\ ([.a]*g[=a]"v[-e]), prop. n. [L. Agave, prop. name, fr. Gr. 'agayh`, fem. of 'agayo`s illustrious, noble.] (Bot.) A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (Agave Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It takes from ten to seventy years, according to climate, to attain maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The juice has purgative and diuretic properties. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

mescal n 1: a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons [syn: mescal, mezcal, peyote, Lophophora williamsii] 2: a colorless Mexican liquor distilled from fermented juices of certain desert plants of the genus Agavaceae (especially the century plant)