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    AMERICAN AGAVE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Widely cultivated American monocarpic plant with greenish-white flowers on a tall stalk; blooms only after ten to twenty years and then diesplay

    Synonyms:

    Agave americana; American agave

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("American agave" is a kind of...):

    agave; 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 fiber)

    Holonyms ("American agave" is a member of...):

    genus Agave (type genus of the Agavaceae; in some classifications considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae)

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