Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several plants of the genus Dasylirion of the southwest United States and adjacent Mexico, having narrow spiny leaves, a short woody stem, and a large panicle of whitish flowers.
- noun An alcoholic beverage distilled from the fermented sap of these plants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the southern United States and Mexico a name given to several species of yucca-like plants belonging to the genus Dasylirion, sometimes called bear-grass.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several species of North American
desert plants of the genus Dasylirion, of theagave family. - noun A distilled
spirit made from thesap of some of these plants, especially Dasylirion wheeleri.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The main pollinators of the agave plants from which sotol is distilled are thought to be long-nosed bats and other nectar eating bat species.
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The main pollinators of the agave plants from which sotol is distilled are thought to be long-nosed bats and other nectar eating bat species.
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Vegetation includes mostly desert shrubs, such as sotol, lechuguilla, yucca, ocotillo, lotebush, tarbush, and pricklypear, with a sparse intervening cover of black grama and other grasses.
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Vegetation includes mostly desert shrubs, such as sotol, lechuguilla, yucca, ocotillo, lotebush, tarbush, and pricklypear, with a sparse intervening cover of black grama and other grasses.
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Aside from the many cactus species in the Chihuahuan Desert Region, one may observe other interesting succulents, like sotol, agaves (known as maguey in Mexico), yuccas (Yucca spp.), and others.
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Aside from the many cactus species in the Chihuahuan Desert Region, one may observe other interesting succulents, like sotol, agaves (known as maguey in Mexico), yuccas (Yucca spp.), and others.
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Other arid-land shrubs become more common: lotebush, lechuguilla, sotol, and redberry juniper.
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Yucca, sotol, lechuguilla, ocotillo, and cacti now dominate the rocky slopes below 5500 feet.
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Plateau live oak woodland is eventually restricted to north and east facing slopes and floodplains, and dry slopes are covered with open shrublands of juniper, sumac, sotol, acacia, honey mesquite, and ceniza.
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Yucca, sotol, lechuguilla, ocotillo, and cacti now dominate the rocky slopes below 5500 feet.
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