Found 2 items, similar to pulque.
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Definition: pulque
pulque
n : fermented Mexican drink from juice of various agave plants
especially the maguey
English → English (gcide)
Definition: pulque
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]
Agave
\A*ga"ve\, n. [L. Agave, prop. name, fr. Gr. ?, fem. of ?
illustrious, noble.] (bot.)
A genus of plants (order
Amaryllidace[ae]) of which the
chief species is the maguey or century plant (
Agave Americana
), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy
years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it
produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in
height, and perishes. 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]