Maguey vs Tequila - What's the difference?
maguey | tequila |
Any of various large agaves of Mexico and the southern US, especially the American aloe, Agave americana .
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 424:
* 1985 , Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian , Vintage 1992, p. 147:
An alcoholic liquor distilled from the fermented juice of the Central American century plant Agave tequilana
As nouns the difference between maguey and tequila
is that maguey is any of various large agaves of mexico and the southern us, especially the american aloe, agave americana while tequila is tequila, an alcoholic liquor distilled from the fermented juice of the central american century plant agave tequilana .maguey
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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
- 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.