pulque

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

pulque
    n 1: fermented Mexican drink from juice of various agave plants
         especially the maguey

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Pulque \Pul"que\, n. [Sp.]
   An intoxicating Mexican drink. See {Agave}.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Agave \A*ga"ve\ ([.a]*g[=a]"v[-e]), prop. n. [L. Agave, prop.
   name, fr. Gr. 'agayh`, fem. of 'agayo`s illustrious, noble.]
   (Bot.)
   A genus of plants (order {Amaryllidaceae}) of which the chief
   species is the maguey or century plant ({Agave Americana}),
   wrongly called Aloe. It takes from ten to seventy years,
   according to climate, to attain maturity, when it produces a
   gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and
   perishes. The juice has purgative and diuretic properties.
   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.
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