maguey

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von maguey im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

Any of various large agaves of Mexico and the southern US, especially the American aloe, Agave americana

and they rode through strange forests of maguey--the aloe or century plant--with immense flowering stalks that rose forty feet into the desert air.

Mexican plant used especially for making pulque the source of the colorless Mexican liquor mescal

The century plant, a species of Agave A

Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine

Americana

Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine Mexican plant used especially for making pulque the source of the colorless Mexican liquor mescal

{i} type of Philippine plant whose fibers are used to make twine; type of Mexican plant used to make pulque from which a liquor is made

Silbentrennung

mag·uey

Etymologie

[ m&-'gA ] (noun.) 1589. From Spanish maguey, from Taino maguey.