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 "
1 The endless fields of blue agave passed by on either side.
2 There was no difference in symptom improvement between the agave and placebo groups.
3 The agave is capable of being applied to many domestic uses.
4 He tasted of coffee and agave syrup and some sort of vegan creamer.
5 Things like oats spelt, rye, millet or even things like molasses or agave .
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.
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 .
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