Definition of Furcraea

1. a tropical plant [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Furcraea

furbishers
furbishes
furbishing
furbisht
furcal
furcal nerve
furcate
furcated
furcately
furcates
furcating
furcation
furcation defects
furcations
furciferous
furcraea (current term)
furcraeas
furcula
furculae
furcular
furculum
furculæ
furder
furdle
furdled
furdles
furdling
furdom
furethidine
fureur

Literary usage of Furcraea

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

1. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1911)
""This plant is said (like most furcraea, I suppose) to produce good fiber?. This species is hardier than any other furcraea I cultivate or know, ..."

2. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.: Horticultural Hall by Massachusetts Horticultural Society, W.D. Ticknor & Co, James Englebert Teschemacher (1892)
"Report on furcraea Fibre Plantations in the Leeward Islands.—Notes on Antigua Pine-Apples.—Supplementary Note on furcraea Fibre Plantations. ..."

3. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1912)
"AMARYLLIDACEAE furcraea Vent. F. cubensis Vent, in Bull. Soc. Philom. I. 66 (1793).— ALBEMARLE ISL. : Villamil, around habitations. CHARLES ISL. ..."

4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"The perianth of furcraea is whitish and wheel-shaped ; in Agave greenish yellow, funnel-shaped. ..."

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