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Agave

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: American aloe, century plant.



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"Agave" Quotes from Famous Books



... great central plateau of Mexico, which runs far into the north and which includes much of Texas. Before them lay another and great change in the country. They were now to enter a land of little rain, where they would find the ragged yucca tree, the agave and the cactus, the scrubby mesquite bush and clumps of coarse grass. But they had passed through so much that they did ...
— The Texan Star - The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty • Joseph A. Altsheler



Words linked to "Agave" :   desert plant, bowstring hemp, bear grass, genus Agave, family Agavaceae, maguey, xerophyte, sisal, American agave, xerophile, sisal family, Nolina microcarpa, cantala, sansevieria, dracaena, xerophytic plant, xerophilous plant, Agavaceae



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