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121 lechuguilla
Texas: 1834. Any of a variety of agave plants, especially Agave lechuguilla, native to the Southwest. Santamaría indicates that lechuguilla is a name given to several plants, including various species of agave. It also refers to ropes made from the fibers of the plant. Cobos glosses it as "sand verbena, Indian hemp, or dogbane."Alternate forms: lechugilla, letchugia. -
122 machero
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123 maguey
(Sp. model spelled same [mayéi], of Taino origin)1) DARE: 1830. Another name for the agave plant. Both Blevins and Hendrick-son reference agave, Hendrickson noting that the term derives from the name of "the daughter of the legendary Cadmus who introduced the Greek alphabet." While many species make up the Agave genus, the most remarkable one is the so-called century plant (A. americana). According to legend, the plant earned its name because it only blooms once every one hundred years. However, it actually blooms any time after fifteen years, usually in twenty to thirty years. Both Blevins and Hendrickson state that the plant dies after blooming, but no Spanish source reaffirms this. According to the DRAE and Blevins, it is originally from Mexico (although introduced into Europe in the sixteenth century and naturalized on the Mediterranean coast). The agave, maguey, or century plant is a light green succulent with fleshy leaves and yellowish blooms. The leaves are similar in arrangement to a triangular pyramid or a rosette; the edges as well as the tips of the leaves are covered with sharp spines, and the plant may grow up to some twenty to twenty-three feet in height. This particular plant and related species are used as hedges or fences in dry, hot areas and they produce fiber (thread), alcoholic beverages (mescal, tequila and pulque), soaps, and foodstuffs. In Mexico, the term maguey is used much more frequently to refer to these same plants. The DARE notes that this name is limited to the Southwest and the Gulf states.Also known as amole, century plant, lechuguilla, mescal.2) New Mexico: 1899. A rope, such as a lasso, made from the fibers of a maguey plant. Santamaría and the DRAE concur with the first definition, but no Spanish source glosses the term as a kind of rope.Alternate forms: maguay, McGay (the latter is a folk etymology). -
124 mano
(Sp. model spelled same [mano] < Latin manum 'hand')1) The General Spanish term for 'hand,' sometimes heard in the Southwest.2) Clark: 1890s. The stone used to grind corn by hand on a metate. Santamaría and the DRAE confirm that this term applies to a stone used to grind corn, cacao, and other grains or foodstuffs into a fine powder ( masa). Both the American Indians and the Mexicans prepared food this way. No doubt a few buckaroos became familiar with the implement and term, having enjoyed a meal thus prepared. -
125 manzana
(Sp. model spelled same [mansána] < mazana < Vulgar Latin [ malam] mattianam, the name of a popular type of apple, probably named for the agriculturist Caius Matius)Carlisle: 1846-47. Glossed by Carlisle as an apple, but in the Southwest it refers to the saddlehorn, which is shaped like an apple cut in half. Santamaría confirms that the term also has this meaning in Mexico. See also apple—apple-horn. -
126 mesilla
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127 mescal
( mexcal or mezcal [meskál] < Nahuatl metl 'maguey' and (i) xcalli 'stew' < ixcalhuia 'to cook or boil something.' The original meaning of this term refers to an intoxicating drink obtained from the maguey or agave plant)1) New Mexico: 1831. Another name for the agave plant. Also refers to the root or the young bud stalk of the plant used for food.Alternate forms: mascal, mescale, mezcal, muscal, muscale.2) California: 1833. An intoxicating drink prepared with the fermented juice or pulp of the agave plant. By extension, any intoxicating drink.Also called mescal liquor.4) According to Blevins, this term also applies to a food prepared from mescal1. The DRAE references mezcal as a variety of agave or a liquor obtained by fermenting and distilling the heads of the plant. Santamaría defines mexcal (or mezcal) as an alcoholic drink extracted by distilling the fleshy leaf or the head of some species of maguey. He notes that the species used for making the drink are Agave mexicana, A. wixlinzeni, A. desipiens. The drink is popular in central and northern Mexico as well as in New Mexico and Texas. -
128 honey mesquite
A common variety of mesquite found in the Southwest.
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