Agave
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. The American
aloe. The great
aloe rises twenty feet, and its branches form a sort of pyramid at the top.
Agave
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the
maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called
Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining
maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The
fermented juice is the
pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields
mescal. A strong thread and a
tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.
