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3 definitions found 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}. 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[ae]}) 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 WordNet r 1.6 [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 [syn: {century plant}, {American aloe}]
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