pulque

4 definitions found

pulque - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

  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\ ([.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.
     [1913 Webster]

pulque - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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