American agave

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American agave - widely cultivated American monocarpic plant with greenish-white flowers on a tall stalk; blooms only after ten to twenty years and then diesAgave americanaagave, American aloe, century plant - tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fibergenus Agave - type genus of the Agavaceae; in some classifications considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae