Found 2 items, similar to maguey.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: maguey
maguey
n 1: Mexican plant used especially for making pulque the source
of the colorless Mexican liquor mescal [syn:
Agave atrovirens
]
2: Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse
twine [syn:
cantala,
Agave cantala]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Maguey
Maguey
\Mag"uey\, n. [Sp. maguey, Mexican maguei and metl.]
(Bot.)
Any of several species of
Agave, such as the
century plant
(
Agave Americana), a plant requiring many years to
come to maturity and blossoming only once before dying; and
the
Agave atrovirens, a Mexican plant used especially for
making
pulque, the source of the colorless Mexican liquor
mescal; and the
cantala (
Agave cantala), a Philippine
plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine. See
Agave.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
2. A hard fibre used in making coarse twine, derived from the
Philippine Agave cantala (
Agave cantala); also called
cantala.
[WordNet 1.5]