amole

American  

[uh-moh-lay, ah-maw-le] / əˈmoʊ leɪ, ɑˈmɔ lɛ /

noun

Southwestern U.S.

• amoles
  plural

1. the root of any of several plants, as Mexican species of agaves, used as a substitute for soap.

2. any such plant itself.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• amoles
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of amole

< Mexican Spanish < Nahuatl ahmōlli soap

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

amole

The only times he has gone hunting was for wild swine, he said, partly because the pigs were killing the purple amole, an endangered purple flower that grows in central California.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2022

Behind him came twenty or thirty more penitentes, the most I ever saw at once, some of them whipping themselves with big broad whips made out of amole.

From The Blood of the Conquerors by Harvey Fergusson

In the meantime eight or ten men have gathered the amole and soke.

From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Carl Lumholtz

When you reach the place where your left hand feels empty without a piece of bread in it, just butter up another amole and try it.

From Her Father's Daughter by Gene Stratton-Porter

His gaze travelled toward the other horse, studying every bunch of mesquite and questioning every clump of amole and yucca that grew between.

From The Delafield Affair by Florence Finch Kelly

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