Definitionn. tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes
Last update: June 26, 2015
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This terminates in a long spike thickly studded with white blossoms. The grass-tree gives as distinct a character to an Australian picture as the agave and cactus do to the Mexican landscape. [Please select]
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, agave, a plant from which pulque, a Mexican drink, is made. [Please select]
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Agave (-ga [Please select]
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[411] The agave (Agave americana; the maguey of Mexico) is found in the Philippines, and is called pita, but Delgado and Blanco think that it was not indigenous there. [Please select]
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=--Sisal hemp, or henequen, is a stout, stringy fibre obtained from the thick leaves of several species of agave, to which the maguey and century-plant belong. [Please select]
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