amole

[ uh-moh-ley; Spanish ah-maw-le ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Southwestern U.S.

, plural a·mo·les [uh, -, moh, -leyz, ah-, maw, -les].

the root of any of several plants, as Mexican species of agaves, used as a substitute for soap.
any such plant itself.

Origin of amole¹

< Mexican Spanish < Nahuatl ahmōlli soap

Their food is amole, bellota and pinole and their chiefs are called Mule and Yuma.

They washed their clothing with a soapy root,—the amole, now similarly used by Indians and Mexicans throughout the Southwest.

In the meantime eight or ten men have gathered the amole and soke.

I've got the deer-brush spotted, and we'll pass an amole before we go very far.

Amole and sagebrush and cactus vied with each other to relieve the dead, flat, monotonous brown.

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