mezcal

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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