Tequilla and mescal are similar, both liquors being distilled fom the maguey plant.
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Maguey
//məˈɡeɪ//
Synonyms for "maguey" (7 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
Strong matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
Related words (3)
Noun(3 words)
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8 translations across 7 languages.
Cebuano
1 entries- magay noun (North American agave)
Classical Nahuatl
1 entries- metl noun (North American agave)
Galician
1 entries- agave noun (North American agave)
Mezquital-Otomi
1 entries- uada noun (North American agave)
Polish
1 entries- agawa amerykańska noun (North American agave)
Quechua
1 entries- qara noun (North American agave)
Spanish
2 entries- maguey noun (North American agave)
- pita noun (North American agave)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
“Well: hardly,” said the Consul, softly as before, casting a suspicious eye for his part in the other direction at some maguey growing beyond the barranca, like a battalion moving up a slope under machine-gun fire.
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[…]and they rode through strange forests of maguey—the aloe or century plant—with immense flowering stalks that rose forty feet into the desert air.
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through black fields, where tlachiqueros brought sheepskins slung across their backs full of fresh maguey juice to be fermented, and campesinos in white lined the right-of-way
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