Mescal vs. Peyote

Mescalnoun

A Mexican alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented juice of the agave.

Peyotenoun

A small, spineless cactus (Lophophora williamsii) found from southwest United States to central Mexico that produces buttonlike tubercles that can be chewed for its psychedelic effect, primarily from the drug mescaline.

Mescalnoun

The peyote cactus.

Peyotenoun

A mescal button produced by the plant.

Mescalnoun

A distilled liquor prepared in Mexico from a species of agave. See Agave.

Peyotenoun

a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons

Mescalnoun

a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons

Peyotenoun

the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons

Mescalnoun

a colorless Mexican liquor distilled from fermented juices of certain desert plants of the genus Agavaceae (especially the century plant)

Peyote

The peyote (; Lophophora williamsii ) is a small, spineless cactus which contains psychoactive alkaloids, particularly mescaline. Peyote is a Spanish word derived from the Nahuatl peyōtl ([ˈpejoːt͡ɬ]), meaning , from a root peyōni, .

‘caterpillar cocoon’; ‘to glisten’;