Agave

[ə'geɪvɪ] or [ə'ɡɑvi]

解释:

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

卡米尔录入--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.

安东录入

解释:

n. a genus of herbaceous plants natives of the warmer parts of America which in Mexico usually flower about the seventh or eighth year the stem rising to a height of forty feet. It is called also the American Aloe and Century Plant receiving the latter name from the number of years (40-60 popularly a hundred) it takes to flower in our hot-houses.

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