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Meanings of century plant in English

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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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        Usage of century plant in English
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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
        Translations for century plant