Definition of Agave americana

1. Noun. Widely cultivated American monocarpic plant with greenish-white flowers on a tall stalk; blooms only after ten to twenty years and then dies.

Exact synonyms: American Agave
Generic synonyms: Agave, American Aloe, Century Plant
Group relationships: Genus Agave

Lexicographical Neighbors of Agave Americana

Agastache
Agastache foeniculum
Agastache mexicana
Agastache nepetoides
Agastya
Agatha
Agatha Christie
Agathis
Agathis alba
Agathis australis
Agathis dammara
Agathis lanceolata
Agathis robusta
Agavaceae
Agave americana (current term)
Agave atrovirens
Agave cantala
Agave sisalana
Agave tequilana
Agdestis
Agdistis
Age of Enlightenment
Age of Fishes
Age of Mammals
Age of Man
Age of Reason
Age of Reptiles
Agee
Agelaius

Literary usage of Agave americana

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1843)
"Picturesque Edifice.—Alacrity of the Indians.— Facade.—Pilasters, Cornices, &c.—Encounter with an Iguana.— Another Ruined Building.—The Agave americana. ..."

2. The Travels and Researches of Alexander Von Humboldt: Being a Condensed by Alexander von Humboldt, William MacGillivray (1869)
"... and Vegetables—Agave americana—Colonial Commodities—Cattle, and Animai Productions. A COUNTRY extending from the sixteenth lo the thirty-seventh degree ..."

3. An Inglorious Columbus, Or, Evidence that Hwui Shăn and a Party of Buddhist by Edward Payson Vining (1885)
"... the maguey, or Agave americana—Connection between the flora of America and that of Asia—Metals and money—Laws and customs of the Aztecs—Domestic ..."

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