any of several plants belonging to the genus Dasylirion, of the agave family, native to the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, resembling the yucca.
Any of several tall woody plants of the genus Dasylirion of the southwest United States and adjacent Mexico, having prickly-margined leaves and a large panicle of whitish unisexual flowers.
An alcoholic beverage produced from the trunks of these plants.
[Perhaps from Spanish soto, thicket, woods, from Latin saltus, narrow pass, woodland.]