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- widely cultivated American monocarpic plant with greenish-white flowers on a tall stalk; blooms only after ten to twenty years and then dies
How To Use Agave americana In A Sentence
- DEWIDAR, A.M. and EL-MUNAJJED, D. (1970) The steroid sapogenin constituents of Agave americana, A. variegate and Yucca gloriosa. Chapter 5
- Pistacia lentiscus, Peganum harmala, Agave americana, Anonis natrix, rubus discolor and Ruta montana. Chapter 7
- This plant, a bromelia, is of the same genus as the _Agave Americana_, and by travellers often confounded with the latter, though quite a distinct plant from the _maguey_ of cultivation. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse