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Maguey

noun

Mexican plant used especially for making pulque which is the source of the colorless Mexican liquor, mescal. Synonym: Agave atrovirens.

Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine. Synonyms: Agave cantala, cantala.

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"Maguey" Quotes from Famous Books

... growth of tropical trees. Farther inland rose two towering mountains. The beach directly before them was low and receding. A long, level plain, covered with a dense growth of coarse sea-grass, was between them and the hills, which were covered with palms, maguey and other tropical trees. ...

— The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; A Century Too Soon (A Story - of Bacon's Rebellion) • John R. Musick

... failed to bring about hallucinations with all the garb of reality. Physicians are well aware that the more frequently these diseased conditions of the mind are sought, the more readily they are found. Then, again, they were often induced by intoxicating and narcotic herbs. Tobacco, the maguey, coca; in California the chucuaco; among the Mexicans the snake plant, ollinhiqui or coaxihuitl; and among the southern tribes of our own country the cassine yupon and iris versicolor,[273-2] were used; and, it is even ...

— The Myths of the New World - A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America • Daniel G. Brinton

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