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mexcalatl.

Headword: 
mexcalatl.
Principal English Translation: 

the sap or juice of the maguey, used as an unfermented drink (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mexcalātl
IPAspelling: 
meʃkɑlɑːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

MEXCALĀ-TL sap, juice of the maguey used as an unfermented drink / agua o jugo de maguey (Z) [(2)Zp. 7, 168]. In both attestations this is bound with –TZIN. See MEXCAL-LI, Ā-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 144.