"mescal" meaning in English

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "mescal bean"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "mescaline"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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        "2": "es-MX",
        "3": "mezcal"
      },
      "expansion": "Mexican Spanish mezcal",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "nah",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Nahuatl",
      "name": "der"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "nci",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Classical Nahuatl",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Mexican Spanish mezcal, from Nahuatl or Classical Nahuatl mexcalli (“intoxicating drink made from fermented agave juice”), perhaps from metl (“maguey (agave)”) + ixcalli (“stew”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mescals",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "mescal (countable and uncountable, plural mescals)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "_dis": "86 14",
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        {
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "93 7",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "91 9",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
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          "name": "Terms with Western Apache translations",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "92 8",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Agavoideae subfamily plants",
          "orig": "en:Agavoideae subfamily plants",
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            "Asparagales order plants",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "60 40",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Cacti",
          "orig": "en:Cacti",
          "parents": [
            "Caryophyllales order plants",
            "Succulents",
            "Plants",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 77:",
          "text": "He thought: 900 pesos=100 bottles of whiskey=900 ditto tequila. Argal: one should drink neither tequila nor whiskey but mescal.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Mexican alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented juice of the agave."
      ],
      "id": "en-mescal-en-noun-boyCRcAo",
      "links": [
        [
          "Mexican",
          "Mexican"
        ],
        [
          "agave",
          "agave"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "apw",
          "lang": "Western Apache",
          "sense": "Mexican alcoholic drink",
          "word": "nadah"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "Mexican alcoholic drink",
          "word": "meskalo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "meskálʹ",
          "sense": "Mexican alcoholic drink",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "меска́ль"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The peyote cactus."
      ],
      "id": "en-mescal-en-noun-uqEI2Yat",
      "links": [
        [
          "peyote",
          "peyote"
        ],
        [
          "cactus",
          "cactus"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "mezcal"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "mexcal"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mescal"
}

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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "mescal bean"
    },
    {
      "word": "mescaline"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "Mexican Spanish mezcal",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "nah",
        "3": "-"
      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "nci",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Classical Nahuatl",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Mexican Spanish mezcal, from Nahuatl or Classical Nahuatl mexcalli (“intoxicating drink made from fermented agave juice”), perhaps from metl (“maguey (agave)”) + ixcalli (“stew”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mescals",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "mescal (countable and uncountable, plural mescals)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 77:",
          "text": "He thought: 900 pesos=100 bottles of whiskey=900 ditto tequila. Argal: one should drink neither tequila nor whiskey but mescal.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Mexican alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented juice of the agave."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Mexican",
          "Mexican"
        ],
        [
          "agave",
          "agave"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The peyote cactus."
      ],
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          "peyote",
          "peyote"
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          "cactus",
          "cactus"
        ]
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      "tags": [
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        "uncountable"
      ]
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "mezcal"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "mexcal"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "apw",
      "lang": "Western Apache",
      "sense": "Mexican alcoholic drink",
      "word": "nadah"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "Mexican alcoholic drink",
      "word": "meskalo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "meskálʹ",
      "sense": "Mexican alcoholic drink",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "меска́ль"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mescal"
}