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Meanings of century plant 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 century plant in English
1
A huge century plant grew on the opposite side of the driveway.
2
The plant is familiar to us as the common century plant of our gardens.
3
It resembles that wonderful century plant which, after decades of developing, flowers and dies.
4
They hang from cacti spines and over thorns on the big century plant and lemon tree.
5
Agave Hartmani, a new species of century plant.
6
We are headquarters for the century plant that draws a salary for ninety-nine years and then dies.
7
A hog can uproot a century plant.
8
Here is one of these flowers; a century plant it is, watered with precious blood, and abloom in sweet solitude.
9
Sainthood comes slowly, like the blossom on a century plant; there must be a hundred years of thorny stem-life first.
10
The century plant is wonderfully suggestive and wonderfully beautiful, but I never look at it without thinking of its parsimony.
11
By the same token the well-known "American aloe," or century plant, is not an aloe, but an agave.
12
She was the magnolia on the family tree, the bloom on a century plant that was heavy with its first bud.
13
Some blossom early, some late, some manifest a nature like the violet, others the rose, the water lily or the century plant.
14
He had long stood rooted passively in the soil of being like a century plant when it is merely keeping itself in existence.
15
I am tired of a world where love is like the blossom of the century plant, unfolding only once in a hundred years.
16
And who knows, some of them may turn out regular century plants.