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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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Agave americana, American agave
widely cultivated American monocarpic plant with greenish-white flowers on a tall stalk; blooms only after ten to twenty years and then dies
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Agave sisalana, sisal
Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope
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Agave cantala, cantala, maguey
Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine
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Agave atrovirens, maguey
Mexican plant used especially for making pulque which is the source of the colorless Mexican liquor, mescal
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Agave tequilana
Mexican plant used especially for making tequila
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dracaena
an agave that is often cultivated for its decorative foliage
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Nolina microcarpa, bear grass
stemless plant with tufts of grasslike leaves and erect panicle of minute creamy white flowers; southwestern United States and Mexico
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bowstring hemp, sansevieria
grown as a houseplant for its mottled fleshy sword-shaped leaves or as a source of fiber
