"Agave" is a word in ENGLISH
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.
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An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows …
Read the complete definitionA univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. …
Read the complete definitionA genus of coniferous trees, properly called Fir, as the balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes …
Read the complete definitionA genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called …
Read the complete definitionA genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed …
Read the complete definitionA genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.
Read the complete definitionA genus including many species of small mites.
Read the complete definitionA genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to …
Read the complete definitionA genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores.
Read the complete definitionA genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa.
Read the complete definitionA genus of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons, having the body armed with bony scales, and the mouth on the …
Read the complete definitionThe herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; -- applied to any plant of the genus Aconitum (tribe Hellebore), all the species of …
Read the complete definitionAnciently, a snake, called dart snake; now, one of a genus of reptiles closely allied to the lizards.
Read the complete definitionOne of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus. See Barnacle.
Read the complete definitionA genus in the family Actinidae.
Read the complete definitionA peculiar larval form of Phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles.
Read the complete definitionA genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of …
Read the complete definitionA small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (/ Pelias) berus. The puff …
Read the complete definitionA genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.
Read the complete definitionA provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred …
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