Definition of agave Agave
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| agave - tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber | ||
| century plant, American aloe | ||
| desert plant, xerophile, xerophilous plant, xerophyte, xerophytic plant plant adapted for life with a limited supply of water; compare hydrophyte and mesophyte | ||
| agavaceae, agave family, family agavaceae, sisal family chiefly tropical and xerophytic plants: includes Dracenaceae (Dracaenaceae); comprises plants that in some classifications are divided between the Amaryllidaceae and the Liliaceae | ||
| agave americana, american agave widely cultivated American monocarpic plant with greenish-white flowers on a tall stalk; blooms only after ten to twenty years and then dies | ||
| agave sisalana, sisal Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope | ||
| agave cantala, cantala, maguey hard fiber used in making coarse twine; from Philippine agave plants | ||
| agave atrovirens, maguey Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine | ||
| agave tequilana Mexican plant used especially for making tequila | ||
| dracaena an agave that is often cultivated for its decorative foliage | ||
| nolina microcarpa, bear grass stemless plant with tufts of grasslike leaves and erect panicle of minute creamy white flowers; southwestern United States and Mexico | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- agave (n.)
A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. 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.
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agave
A succulent plant of a large botanical genus of the same name, belonging to the family Agavaceae.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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agave
a-gā′ve, n. a genus of herbaceous plants, natives of the warmer parts of America, which in Mexico usually flower about the seventh or eighth year, the stem rising to a height of forty feet. It is called also the American Aloe and Century Plant, receiving the latter name from the number of years (40-60, popularly a hundred) it takes to flower in our hot-houses
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agave
The American aloe, from which cordage is made; similar to the piña of Manila. The fruit also, when expressed, affords the refreshing drink "pulque."
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Agaves are succulent plants. Succulent plants store water in their leaves. Cacti (more than one cactus) are one kind of succulents; agaves are another kind. There are quite a few such kinds of succulent plants.
Agaves grow mainly in Mexico. The agave plants have their leaves in a rosetta arrangement. They flower only once, produce seeds and die off.
Tequila is made from agaves. Pulque is beer made from agave juice
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🔤- agave, noun, singular of agaves.
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