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mescal
(encz) | mescal,meskal n: Zdeněk Brož |
mescal
(gcide) | 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] |
Mescal
(gcide) | Mescal \Mes*cal"\, n. [Sp.]
A distilled liquor prepared in Mexico from a species of
agave. See Agave.
[1913 Webster] |
mescal
(gcide) | 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] |
mescal
(wn) | 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) |
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limescale
(encz) | limescale,vodní kámen n: Ritchie |
mescal bean
(encz) | mescal bean, n: |
mescal button
(encz) | mescal button, n: |
mescaline
(encz) | mescaline,meskalin n: Zdeněk Brož |
timescale
(encz) | timescale,časové měřítko Zdeněk Brož |
timescales
(encz) | timescales,časová měřítka n: Zdeněk Brož |
Mescal
(gcide) | 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]Mescal \Mes*cal"\, n. [Sp.]
A distilled liquor prepared in Mexico from a species of
agave. See Agave.
[1913 Webster]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] |
mescal bean
(wn) | mescal bean
n 1: shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to
livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue
flowers and red beans [syn: mescal bean, coral bean,
frijolito, frijolillo, Sophora secundiflora] |
mescal button
(wn) | mescal button
n 1: the button-shaped top of the mescal cactus; a source of
psilocybin [syn: mescal button, sacred mushroom, {magic
mushroom}] |
mescaline
(wn) | mescaline
n 1: the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in
mescal buttons [syn: mescaline, peyote] |
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