amole
/uh-moh-ley; Spanish ah-maw-le/US // əˈmoʊ leɪ; Spanish ɑˈmɔ lɛ //
阿莫尔,阿莫尔语,阿摩尔,阿莫莱
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
plural a·mo·les [uh-moh-leyz; Spanish ah-maw-les]. /əˈmoʊ leɪz; Spanish ɑˈmɔ lɛs/. Southwestern U.S.
- : the root of any of several plants, as Mexican species of agaves, used as a substitute for soap.
- : any such plant itself.
Examples
Their food is amole, bellota and pinole and their chiefs are called Mule and Yuma.
They washed their clothing with a soapy root,—the amole, now similarly used by Indians and Mexicans throughout the Southwest.
In the meantime eight or ten men have gathered the amole and soke.
I've got the deer-brush spotted, and we'll pass an amole before we go very far.
Amole and sagebrush and cactus vied with each other to relieve the dead, flat, monotonous brown.
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