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Maguey

noun
1.
Mexican plant used especially for making pulque which is the source of the colorless Mexican liquor, mescal.  Synonym: Agave atrovirens.
2.
Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine.  Synonyms: Agave cantala, cantala.



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"Maguey" Quotes from Famous Books



... yellow, and brown, together with the cloth made of this cotton by the natives on crude hand looms, and the tree cotton variety, which is principally used by the natives for filling pillows. In the fiber exhibit were samples of hemp, maguey pina, and textile barks of all kinds, together with samples of cloth and ...
— Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission • Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission

... del pais se encuentran molinos de trigo y aserraderos de valiosas maderas. Es una importante industria la fabricacion y destilacion de bebidas. El pulque es la bebida nacional de Mejico, y se obtiene del jugo del maguey. Hay tambien fabricas de papel y de objetos de barro. Hay numerosas fundiciones de hierro y fabricas donde se ...
— A First Spanish Reader • Erwin W. Roessler and Alfred Remy



Words linked to "Maguey" :   pulque, American aloe, century plant, cantala, mescal, Cebu maguey, Agave atrovirens, genus Agave, agave



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