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noun
a fermented milky drink made from the juice of certain species of agave in Mexico.
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1685–95; < Mexican Spanish
1685–95; < Mexican Spanish
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pulque
fermented alcoholic beverage made in Mexico since the pre-Columbian era. Cloudy and whitish in appearance, it has a sour buttermilk-like flavour and about 6 percent alcohol content. It is made from fermented aguamiel ("honey water"), the sap of any of several species of the agave, or maguey, plant (often called century plant).
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