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so⋅tol

  [soh-tohl, soh-tohl]
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–noun
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:
1880–85, Americanism; < MexSp < Nahuatl zōtōlin
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so·tol   (sō'tōl')   
n.  
  1. 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.
  2. An alcoholic beverage produced from the trunks of these plants.

[Perhaps from Spanish soto, thicket, woods, from Latin saltus, narrow pass, woodland.]
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