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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: American aloe
American aloe
n : tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous
sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some
cultivated for ornament or for fiber [syn:
agave,
century plant
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: American aloe
Aloe
\Al"oe\ ([a^]l"n[-o]), n.; pl.
Aloes (-[=o]z). [L.
alo["e], Gr. 'alo`h, aloe: cf. OF. aloe, F. alo[`e]s.]
1. pl. The wood of the agalloch. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
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2. (Bot.) A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees,
others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit
and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some
of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts.
They are natives of warm countries.
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3. pl. (Med.) The inspissated juice of several species of
aloe, used as a purgative. [Plural in form but
syntactically singular.]
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American aloe,
Century aloe, the agave. See
Agave.
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