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Significats de century plant en anglès

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Tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber.

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Ús de century plant en anglès
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A huge century plant grew on the opposite side of the driveway.
Her mother's hope
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The plant is familiar to us as the common century plant of our gardens.
The Western United States: A Geographical Reader
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It resembles that wonderful century plant which, after decades of developing, flowers and dies.
Mizora: A Prophecy / A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of th...
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They hang from cacti spines and over thorns on the big century plant and lemon tree.
Moths of the Limberlost: A Book About Limberlost Cabin
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Agave Hartmani, a new species of century plant.
Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) / A Record of Five Years' Explor...
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We are headquarters for the century plant that draws a salary for ninety-nine years and then dies.
Remarks
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A hog can uproot a century plant.
New Tabernacle Sermons
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Here is one of these flowers; a century plant it is, watered with precious blood, and abloom in sweet solitude.
Sketches of the Covenanters
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Sainthood comes slowly, like the blossom on a century plant; there must be a hundred years of thorny stem-life first.
Ole Mammy's Torment
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The century plant is wonderfully suggestive and wonderfully beautiful, but I never look at it without thinking of its parsimony.
New Tabernacle Sermons
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By the same token the well-known "American aloe," or century plant, is not an aloe, but an agave.
Ranching, Sport and Travel
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She was the magnolia on the family tree, the bloom on a century plant that was heavy with its first bud.
Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
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Some blossom early, some late, some manifest a nature like the violet, others the rose, the water lily or the century plant.
The Right Knock / A Story
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He had long stood rooted passively in the soil of being like a century plant when it is merely keeping itself in existence.
The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields
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I am tired of a world where love is like the blossom of the century plant, unfolding only once in a hundred years.
A String of Amber Beads
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And who knows, some of them may turn out regular century plants.
Peggy-Alone
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