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‖ Agave Bot.|əˈgeɪviː|
[L. Agāve prop. name in mythology, ad. Gr. ἀγαυή, properly adj. fem. of ἀγαυός illustrious, highborn, adopted as a generic name by mod. botanists.]
A genus of plants (family Amaryllidaceæ), of which the chief species is the American Aloe, whose stately flower-stem (sometimes forty feet high) is produced only when the plant arrives at maturity, at the age of from ten to seventy years.
1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 257 The wild Agave of Mexico yields a copious juice when tapped, which is fermented into a wine. 1842Tennyson Daisy xxi, The moonlight touching o'er a terrace One tall Agavè above the lake. |