agave

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English

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'Agave' attenuatais typical of large 'Agave' species with candelabra-like inflorescences

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Borrowed fromAncient GreekἈγαυή(Agauḗ,“Agave”),fromἀγαυός(agauós,“noble, illustrious”).

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agave(pluralagaves)

  1. Any plant in the large,variablegenusAgave:succulentplants, commonlyarmedwithformidableprickles;theyfloweratmaturityafter several years, and generally diethereafter;largespecies,such as themagueyorcentury plant,(Agave americana), producegiganticinflorescences.Severalare ofeconomicimportanceassourcesoffibresuch assisal,andalcoholicbeveragessuch astequila.
    • 1895,J[ohn] W[esley] Powell,chapter I, inCanyons of the Colorado,Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished asThe Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons,New York:Dover,1961,→ISBN,→OCLC,page22:
      On the mountains a few junipers and piñons are found, and cactuses,agave,and yuccas, low, fleshy plants with bayonets and thorns.
    • 1893Charles Richards Dodge, A Report on the Leaf Fibers of the United States. Pub: Govt. print. office Washington
      The work of cutting the leaves, even from theseisolatedplants, was in thenatureof anordeal.Everymemberof thepartytook a knife and attacked thethicket,no one escaping theexperienceof bleeding hands and arms and of more or lessinjuredclothing. If there is any place where strong language is halfway excusable it is in a thicket of 'Agave' decipiens.
    • 1998,Octavia E. Butler,Parable of the Talents,HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), pages25–26:
      It was one of the large, vicious varieties ofagave,each individual plant an upturned rosette of stiff, fibrous, fleshy leaves, some of them over a meter long on the big parent plants.
    Synonym:century plant

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Commonlyconfusedwith theunrelatedgenusAloe,evenreferredto as "American Aloe".

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Danish

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Etymology

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FromNew LatinAgave,fromAncient GreekἈγαυή(Agauḗ),name of one of the daughters ofCadmus,fromἀγαυός(agauós,“noble, illustrious”).

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agavec(singular definiteagaven,plural indefiniteagaver)

  1. agave

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Declension ofagave
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative agave agaven agaver agaverne
genitive agaves agavens agavers agavernes

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Etymology

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FromNew LatinAgave,fromAncient GreekἈγαυή(Agauḗ),name of one of the daughters ofCadmus,fromἀγαυός(agauós,“noble, illustrious”).

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agavem(pluralagaves)

  1. agave

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Etymology

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FromNew LatinAgave,fromAncient GreekἈγαυή(Agauḗ),name of one of the daughters ofCadmus,fromἀγαυός(agauós,“noble, illustrious”).

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agavef(pluralagavi)

  1. agave

Portuguese

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Etymology

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BorrowedfromNew LatinAgave,fromAncient GreekἈγαυή(Agauḗ),name of one of the daughters ofCadmus,fromἀγαυός(agauós,“noble, illustrious”).

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  • Hyphenation:a‧ga‧ve

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agavem(pluralagaves)

  1. agave(plant of the genusAgave)

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Etymology

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BorrowedfromtranslingualAgave,fromAncient GreekἈγαυή(Agauḗ),name of one of the daughters ofCadmus,fromἀγαυός(agauós,“noble, illustrious”).

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agavem(pluralagaves)

  1. agave
    Synonym:pita

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