"mescal" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: mescals [plural]
Etymology: From Mexican Spanish mezcal, from Nahuatl or Classical Nahuatl mexcalli (“intoxicating drink made from fermented agave juice”), perhaps from metl (“maguey (agave)”) + ixcalli (“stew”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|es-MX|mezcal}} Mexican Spanish mezcal, {{der|en|nah|-}} Nahuatl, {{der|en|nci|-}} Classical Nahuatl, {{m|nah|mexcalli||intoxicating drink made from fermented agave juice}} mexcalli (“intoxicating drink made from fermented agave juice”), {{m|nah|metl||maguey (agave)}} metl (“maguey (agave)”), {{m|nah|ixcalli||stew}} ixcalli (“stew”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} mescal (countable and uncountable, plural mescals)
  1. A Mexican alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented juice of the agave. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Agavoideae subfamily plants, Cacti Translations (Mexican alcoholic drink): meskalo (Esperanto), меска́ль (meskálʹ) [masculine] (Russian), nadah (Western Apache)
    Sense id: en-mescal-en-noun-boyCRcAo Disambiguation of Agavoideae subfamily plants: 93 7 Disambiguation of Cacti: 63 37 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 96 4 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 98 2 Disambiguation of 'Mexican alcoholic drink': 100 0
  2. The peyote cactus. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-mescal-en-noun-uqEI2Yat
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: mezcal, mexcal [rare] Derived forms: mescal bean, mescaline

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