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maguey


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Maguey  \Mag"uey\,  n.  [Sp.  maguey,  Mexican  maguei  and  metl.] 
  (Bot.) 
  The  century  plant,  a  species  of  {Agave}  ({A.  Americana}).  See 
  {Agave}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  maguey 
  n  1:  Mexican  plant  used  especially  for  making  pulque  the  source 
  of  the  colorless  Mexican  liquor  mescal  [syn:  {Agave 
  atrovirens}] 
  2:  Philippine  plant  yielding  a  hard  fibre  used  in  making  coarse 
  twine  [syn:  {cantala},  {Agave  cantala}] 




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