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Definition of Magueys
1. maguey [n] - See also: maguey
Lexicographical Neighbors of Magueys
Literary usage of Magueys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life in Mexico During a Residence of Two Years in that Country (1843)
"... Sunset —Evening Visits — Mexican Etiquette — A Night-view from the Azotea —
Tacubaya — magueys—Making of Pulque — Organos and Nopal — Environs of Mexico ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1901)
"Of these, the pulque magueys alone are cultivated, except in the state of Yucatan,
the fibre maguey being seldom cultivated in the other states, ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1901)
"Of these, the pulque magueys alone are cultivated, except in the state of Yucatan,
the fibre maguey being seldom cultivated in the other states, ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1884)
"Likewise, if one stole magueys to the number of twenty to make honey, ... and if
the party did not own sufficient or if there were more magueys, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... magueys have a thinner leaf and are not cultivated, with [«exception of the
species producing the " tequila- " mescal. The **f value of the agaves, ..."
6. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1897)
"The pulque magueys are several in number. ... These have much thinner leaves than
the pulque magueys and, in the case of the species so largely used in the ..."
7. Tropical America by Isaac Nelson Ford (1893)
"When the divide is crossed, there is another series of gorges, another mountain
torrent is followed in its windings from the summit, and the magueys, ..."
8. Chambers' Edinburgh Journal by Robert Chambers, William Chambers (1851)
"... have said manufactured: the process is extremely simple, but I will detail it
from the l>eginning. You passing along the edge of a field of magueys a ..."
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