agave : Idioms & Phrases
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agave americana
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noun widely cultivated American monocarpic plant with greenish-white flowers on a tall stalk; blooms only after ten to twenty years and then dies
Agave americana.
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agave atrovirens
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noun Mexican plant used especially for making pulque which is the source of the colorless Mexican liquor, mescal
maguey.
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agave cantala
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noun Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine
cantala; maguey.
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agave family
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noun chiefly tropical and xerophytic plants: includes Dracenaceae (Dracaenaceae); comprises plants that in some classifications are divided between the Amaryllidaceae and the Liliaceae
Agavaceae; sisal family; family Agavaceae.
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agave sisalana
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noun Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope
sisal.
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agave tequilana
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noun Mexican plant used especially for making tequila
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american agave
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noun widely cultivated American monocarpic plant with greenish-white flowers on a tall stalk; blooms only after ten to twenty years and then dies
Agave americana.
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genus agave
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noun type genus of the Agavaceae; in some classifications considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae
