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mescals

mescals is the plural of mescal.

Meaning of mescal

Noun

mescal (countable and uncountable, plural mescals)

  1. A Mexican alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented juice of the agave.
    • He thought: 900 pesos=100 bottles of whiskey=900 ditto tequila. argal: one should drink neither tequila nor whiskey but mescal.1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 77
  2. The peyote cactus.

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Proper noun capitalized: Mescals

Mescals

  1. (plural) plural of Mescal

Questions about mescals

What is mescals the plural of?
Mescals is the plural of mescal.
What part of speech is mescals?
Mescals is a proper noun.

Words near mescals in the dictionary

  1. Mescaleros
  2. mescalin
  3. mescaline
  4. mescalines
  5. mescalism
  6. mescals
  7. Meschede
  8. Mescher
  9. Meschers
  10. Meschke
  11. Meschkes

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