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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: agave
agave
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:
century plant,
American aloe]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Agave
Agave
\A*ga"ve\, n. [L. Agave, prop. name, fr. Gr. ?, fem. of ?
illustrious, noble.] (bot.)
A genus of plants (order
Amaryllidace[ae]) of which the
chief species is the maguey or century plant (
Agave Americana
), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy
years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it
produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in
height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the
pulque of
the Mexicans; distilled, it yields
mescal. A strong thread
and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has
many uses.
[1913 Webster]
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