sotol

[ soh-tohl, soh-tohl ]

noun
  1. 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.

Origin of sotol

1
1880–85, Americanism;<Mexican Spanish <Nahuatl zōtōlin

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