mes|cal

mes|cal
mes|cal «mehs KAL», noun.
1. an alcoholic drink of Mexico made from the fermented juice of certain agaves, especially the maguey.
2. any one of the plants yielding this.
3. a small cactus of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, whose buttonlike tops are dried and chewed as a stimulant and hallucinogen by some tribes of Indians during religious ceremonies; peyote.
╂[American English < Mexican Spanish mescal < Nahuatl mexcalli a fermented drink]

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