Agave : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Agave	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Agave
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
agave n tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber Synonym(s): agave, century plant, American aloe
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Agave \A*ga"ve\, n. [L. Agave, prop. name, fr. Gr. [?], fem. of [?] illustrious, noble.] (bot.) A genus of plants (order {Amaryllidace[91]}) 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Maguey \Mag"uey\, n. [Sp. maguey, Mexican maguei and metl.] (Bot.) The century plant, a species of {Agave} ({A. Americana}). See {Agave}.