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mexcal

mexcal is the alternative spelling 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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Questions about mexcal

What is mexcal the alternative spelling of?
Mexcal is the alternative spelling of mescal.

Words near mexcal in the dictionary

  1. Mexamerican
  2. Mexamericans
  3. mexamine
  4. mexazolam
  5. Mexborough
  6. mexcal
  7. Mexcrement
  8. Mexcrements
  9. mexenchyme
  10. mexenone
  11. Mexer

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