maguey

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Определение maguey в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

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

Расстановка переносов

mag·uey

Этимология

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