[poo
l-kee; Sp. pool-ke] 
| a fermented milky drink made from the juice of certain species of agave in Mexico. |
| pul·que (pōōl'kā', -kē, pŏŏl'-) n. A thick fermented alcoholic beverage made in Mexico from various species of agave. [American Spanish, from Nahuatl poliuhqui, decomposed, lost.] |
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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