agave : Idioms & Phrases


agave americana

  • 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

  • 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

  • noun Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine
    cantala; maguey.
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agave family

  • 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

  • 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

  • noun Mexican plant used especially for making tequila
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american agave

  • 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

  • noun type genus of the Agavaceae; in some classifications considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae
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