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Century plant   /sˈɛntʃəri plænt/   Listen
Century plant

noun
1.
Tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber.  Synonyms: agave, American aloe.






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"Century plant" Quotes from Famous Books



... with grim looks at her powdered locks. "Egad's life, so is the bud on a century plant young," and ...
— Heralds of Empire - Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade • Agnes C. Laut

... outside, the other inside, the basket. These he sewed firmly, over and over, to the basket with a kind of fibre from a plant he had discovered that looked almost to be what he had heard called the century plant in ...
— An American Robinson Crusoe • Samuel B. Allison



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