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American agave

DEFINITIONS OF: American agave

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n widely cultivated American monocarpic plant with greenish-white flowers on a tall stalk; blooms only after ten to twenty years and then dies

Synonyms:
Agave americana
Type of:
American aloe, agave, century plant
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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