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AMERICAN AGAVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American agave mean? 

AMERICAN AGAVE (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN AGAVE has 1 sense:

1. widely cultivated American monocarpic plant with greenish-white flowers on a tall stalk; blooms only after ten to twenty years and then diesplay

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN AGAVE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AMERICAN AGAVE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely cultivated American monocarpic plant with greenish-white flowers on a tall stalk; blooms only after ten to twenty years and then dies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Agave americana; American agave

Hypernyms ("American agave" is a kind of...):

agave; American aloe; century plant (tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber)

Holonyms ("American agave" is a member of...):

genus Agave (type genus of the Agavaceae; in some classifications considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae)


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