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Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several species of North American desert plants of the genus (taxlink Dasylirion genus noshow=1), of the asparagus family. 2 A distilled spirit made from the sap of some of these plants, especially (taxlink Dasylirion wheeleri species noshow=1).
Wikipedia
Sotol is a distilled spirit made from the Dasylirion wheeleri, Asparagaceae (commonly known as Desert Spoon or, in Spanish, sotol), a plant that grows in northern Mexico, New Mexico, west Texas, and the Texas Hill Country. It is known as the state drink of Chihuahua, Durango and Coahuila. There are few commercial examples available. It is produced in a manner similar to the more common artisanal mezcals of central Mexico. The flowering stem of sotol is one of the best materials for making a friction fire, as it is straight, light in weight, and strong. As it is straight, the stem requiring little to no straightening prior to use, it was commonly used as a lance and spear, the latter with an attached stone or metal point.
Usage examples of "sotol".
Brown and weathered men with burros three or four in tandem atotter with loads of candelilla or furs or goathides or coils of handmade rope fashioned out of lechugilla or the fermented drink called sotol decanted into drums and cans and strapped onto packframes made from treelimbs.
As the road clawed up the rugged lower slope of the Guadalupes, cholla gave way to sotol, a plant that looked like an agave but was actually a cousin of the lily.
Mesquite and prickly pear, agave and tall, bloomed-out stalks of sotol gave a sparse shade for the baking land.
Brown and weathered men with burros three or four in tandem atotter with loads of candelilla or furs or goathides or coils of handmade rope fashioned out of lechugilla or the fermented drink called sotol decanted into drums and cans and strapped onto packframes made from treelimbs.
Daggers of agave, needle-sharp and thrusting knife-like up from the rocky soil, catclaw in a bushy haze of tangled branches and small hooked spines, and jagged-toothed sotol, the black sheep of the lily family, tore at her skin and clothing.
There were no animals and nothing but a stall half filled with dry sotols in the way of feed.