agave
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀγαυή (Agauḗ, “Agave”), from ἀγαυός (agauós, “noble, illustrious”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /əˈɡɑːveɪ/, /əˈɡeɪviː/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪvi
Noun
[edit]agave (plural agaves)
- Any plant in the large, variable genus Agave: succulent plants, commonly armed with formidable prickles; they flower at maturity after several years, and generally die thereafter; large species, such as the maguey or century plant, (Agave americana), produce gigantic inflorescences. Several are of economic importance as sources of fibre such as sisal, and alcoholic beverages such as tequila.
- 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:
- On the mountains a few junipers and piñons are found, and cactuses, agave, and yuccas, low, fleshy plants with bayonets and thorns.
- 1893 Charles 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 these isolated plants, was in the nature of an ordeal. Every member of the party took a knife and attacked the thicket, no one escaping the experience of bleeding hands and arms and of more or less injured clothing. 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), pages 25–26:
- It was one of the large, vicious varieties of agave, 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
Usage notes
[edit]Commonly confused with the unrelated genus Aloe, even referred to as "American Aloe".
Derived terms
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Further reading
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Agave on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Agave on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Agave on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - agave at USDA Plants database
- aloe
- maguey
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From New Latin Agave, from Ancient Greek Ἀγαυή (Agauḗ), name of one of the daughters of Cadmus, from ἀγαυός (agauós, “noble, illustrious”).
Noun
[edit]agave c (singular definite agaven, plural indefinite agaver)
Declension
[edit]Declension of agave
Further reading
[edit]- “agave” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From New Latin Agave, from Ancient Greek Ἀγαυή (Agauḗ), name of one of the daughters of Cadmus, from ἀγαυός (agauós, “noble, illustrious”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]agave m (plural agaves)
Further reading
[edit]- “agave”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From New Latin Agave, from Ancient Greek Ἀγαυή (Agauḗ), name of one of the daughters of Cadmus, from ἀγαυός (agauós, “noble, illustrious”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]agave f (plural agavi)
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from New Latin Agave, from Ancient Greek Ἀγαυή (Agauḗ), name of one of the daughters of Cadmus, from ἀγαυός (agauós, “noble, illustrious”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: a‧ga‧ve
Noun
[edit]agave m (plural agaves)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from translingual Agave, from Ancient Greek Ἀγαυή (Agauḗ), name of one of the daughters of Cadmus, from ἀγαυός (agauós, “noble, illustrious”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]agave m (plural agaves)
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “agave”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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