About The Word Agave
Learn about the word Agave to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Agave definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Agave
| Agave Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of 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
Synonyms | Synonyms for Agave: American aloe | century plant Related Terms | Find terms related to Agave: See Also | Agavaceae | Agave americana | Agave atrovirens | Agave cantala | agave family | Agave sisalana | Agave tequilana | American agave | bear grass | bowstring hemp | cantala | desert plant | dracaena | family Agavaceae | maguey | Nolina microcarpa | sansevieria | sisal | sisal family | xerophile | xerophilous plant | xerophyte | xerophytic plant Agave In Webster's Dictionary \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.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Dreadful ‐ causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk";…
- Fahrenheit scale ‐ a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water…
- Tetragrammaton ‐ four Hebrew letters (usually transliterated as YHWH (Yahweh)…
- Research worker ‐ a scientist who devotes himself to…
- Hamitic language ‐ a group of North African languages related…
- Yellow lupine ‐ yellow-flowered European lupine cultivated…
- Israeli ‐ a native or inhabitant of Israel [adj] of or relating to or characteristic…
- Bird-scarer ‐ an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away…
- Smoothbore ‐ of a firearm; not having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside…
- Affective disorder ‐ any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities…