Associations to the word «Agave»

Wiktionary

AGAVE, noun. A plant of the genus Agave, which includes the maguey or century plant. Attaining maturity, it produces a gigantic flower stem.
AGAVE, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Agavaceae   — the agaves.

Dictionary definition

AGAVE, noun. Tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope