agave
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1. tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber (noun.plant)
hyponym | : | agave americana, american agave, |
definition | : | widely cultivated American monocarpic plant with greenish-white flowers on a tall stalk; blooms only after ten to twenty years and then dies (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | agave sisalana, sisal, |
definition | : | Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | agave cantala, cantala, maguey, |
definition | : | Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | agave atrovirens, maguey, |
definition | : | Mexican plant used especially for making pulque which is the source of the colorless Mexican liquor, mescal (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | agave tequilana, |
definition | : | Mexican plant used especially for making tequila (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | dracaena, |
definition | : | an agave that is often cultivated for its decorative foliage (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | bear grass, nolina microcarpa, |
definition | : | stemless plant with tufts of grasslike leaves and erect panicle of minute creamy white flowers; southwestern United States and Mexico (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | bowstring hemp, sansevieria, |
definition | : | grown as a houseplant for its mottled fleshy sword-shaped leaves or as a source of fiber (noun.plant) |
member meronym | : | agavaceae, agave family, family agavaceae, sisal family, |
definition | : | chiefly tropical and xerophytic plants: includes Dracenaceae (Dracaenaceae); comprises plants that in some classifications are divided between the Amaryllidaceae and the Liliaceae (noun.plant) |
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