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Meanings of American aloe in English
Tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber.
Usage of American aloe in English
1
The maguey, or American aloe, is the most abundant and widely distributed of the native plants.
2
The plant called American aloe, Agave americana (c.v.), belongs to a different order, viz.
3
Agave americana, Century plant or American aloe.
4
These poles were the flower stalks of the great American aloe, or maguey-plant-theonly thing resembling wood that grew near.
5
By the same token the well-known " American aloe," or century plant, is not an aloe, but an agave.
6
Another tropical plant, seen at the North in greenhouses, but here growing ten feet high in the open air, is the American aloe or century-plant.
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It was the Agave, or American Aloe, sometimes called the Century Plant, because it blooms but once in a lifetime.