maguey
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1. Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | agave, american aloe, century plant, |
| definition | : | 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) |
| member meronym | : | genus agave, |
| definition | : | type genus of the Agavaceae; in some classifications considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae (noun.plant) |
2. Mexican plant used especially for making pulque which is the source of the colorless Mexican liquor, mescal (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | agave, american aloe, century plant, |
| definition | : | 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) |
| member meronym | : | genus agave, |
| definition | : | type genus of the Agavaceae; in some classifications considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae (noun.plant) |
| substance holonym | : | pulque, |
| definition | : | fermented Mexican drink from juice of various agave plants especially the maguey (noun.food) |
| substance holonym | : | mescal, |
| definition | : | a colorless Mexican liquor distilled from fermented juices of certain desert plants of the genus Agavaceae (especially the century plant) (noun.food) |
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