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Peyote-producing cactus
Answer for the clue "Peyote-producing cactus ", 6 letters:
mescal
Alternative clues for the word mescal
- Intoxicant
- Small cactus
- Cantina quaff
- Cactus or beverage
- Spirit made from agave sap
- Cactus plant
- Essential feature of theme's called for an intoxicant
- A colorless Mexican liquor distilled from fermented juices of certain desert plants of the genus Agavaceae (especially the century plant)
- Agave liquor
Word definitions for mescal in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"plant of the genus Agave," found in deserts of Mexico and southwestern U.S., especially the American aloe, or maguey plant, 1702, from Mexican Spanish, from Nahuatl (Aztecan) mexcalli "fermented drink made from agave," from metl "agave" + ixcalli "stew." ...
Usage examples of mescal.
Was this present outbreak due to the insidious hold of some new virus, breeding and spreading in places more civilised, perhaps stimulated horrifically by mescal, iodine and methylene blue?
Art, this drug addict theory of yours may apply to the mescal, but what about the other items being used in association with it?
The second is to seek expert advice on what mescal, methylene blue and iodine can do to people when used like all these bodies have been using it.
Can you tell me what happens to a person who paints himself with iodine and doses himself with mescal and methylene blue?
He accomplished this feat with the aid of iodine, methylene blue and mescal, and although the manner in which these components react relatively to each other is not fully understood, there is no doubt of their efficiency.
He agreed that mescal served only to stimulate the optic nerves, attuning them to the new vision, but the actual cause was iodine.
Nothing can give a better idea of the economic life of these people than a description of one of their annual mescal harvests.
From the camp where they have passed the winter they take to the trails which lead to the mescal hills.
Black river, and continue on to the mountains where the mescal grows abundantly.
The women of the Stone Age who gathered mescal on the same ground, and perhaps used the same pit, thus far must have used identical tools.
The gathering of the mescal continues for several days, an area covering a radius of perhaps two miles being stripped of its budding plants, for such only are harvested.
There is need for haste in throwing in and covering the mescal, as the steam must be confined to prevent the hot stones from scorching it.
A row of silent matrons offered tacos and hamburgers and rice balls, with mescal and beer and tea.
Shapeless in a faded blanket, she sat behind her ancient cash machine at the wide door of the trading post, taking money for meals and beer and mescal, for stuff off the shelves, for the girls upstairs.
Breathing fast, Davey followed him down the stairs behind the bar and back through the stale stinks of spilled beer and mescal to a serape hanging on the wall.