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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Examples for "agave"
Examples for "agave"
1The endless fields of blue agave passed by on either side.
2There was no difference in symptom improvement between the agave and placebo groups.
3The agave is capable of being applied to many domestic uses.
4He tasted of coffee and agave syrup and some sort of vegan creamer.
5Things like oats spelt, rye, millet or even things like molasses or agave.
1The maguey, or American aloe, is the most abundant and widely distributed of the native plants.
2The plant called American aloe, Agave americana (c.v.), belongs to a different order, viz.
3Agave americana, Century plant or American aloe.
4These poles were the flower stalks of the great American aloe, or maguey-plant-theonly thing resembling wood that grew near.
5By the same token the well-known " American aloe," or century plant, is not an aloe, but an agave.
1A huge century plant grew on the opposite side of the driveway.
2The plant is familiar to us as the common century plant of our gardens.
3It resembles that wonderful century plant which, after decades of developing, flowers and dies.
4They hang from cacti spines and over thorns on the big century plant and lemon tree.
5Agave Hartmani, a new species of century plant.
6We are headquarters for the century plant that draws a salary for ninety-nine years and then dies.
7A hog can uproot a century plant.
8Here is one of these flowers; a century plant it is, watered with precious blood, and abloom in sweet solitude.
9Sainthood comes slowly, like the blossom on a century plant; there must be a hundred years of thorny stem-life first.
10The century plant is wonderfully suggestive and wonderfully beautiful, but I never look at it without thinking of its parsimony.
11By the same token the well-known "American aloe," or century plant, is not an aloe, but an agave.
12She was the magnolia on the family tree, the bloom on a century plant that was heavy with its first bud.
13Some blossom early, some late, some manifest a nature like the violet, others the rose, the water lily or the century plant.
14He had long stood rooted passively in the soil of being like a century plant when it is merely keeping itself in existence.
15I am tired of a world where love is like the blossom of the century plant, unfolding only once in a hundred years.
16And who knows, some of them may turn out regular century plants.
Translations for century plant