agave

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * 1) Any plant in the large, variable genus : succulent plants, commonly armed with formidable prickles; they flower at maturity after several years, and generally die thereafter; large species, such as the maguey or century plant,, produce gigantic inflorescences. Several are of economic importance as sources of fibre such as sisal, and alcoholic beverages such as tequila.
 * 2) * 1893 Charles Richards Dodge, A Report on the Leaf Fibers of the United States. Pub: Govt. print. office Washington
 * The work of cutting the leaves, even from these isolated plants, was in the nature of an ordeal. Every member of the party took a knife and attacked the thicket, no one escaping the experience of bleeding hands and arms and of more or less injured clothing. If there is any place where strong language is halfway excusable it is in a thicket of  decipiens''.
 * The work of cutting the leaves, even from these isolated plants, was in the nature of an ordeal. Every member of the party took a knife and attacked the thicket, no one escaping the experience of bleeding hands and arms and of more or less injured clothing. If there is any place where strong language is halfway excusable it is in a thicket of  decipiens''.

Usage notes
Commonly confused with the unrelated genus Aloe, even referred to as "American Aloe".

Translations

 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: ikaz
 * Armenian:
 * Bashkir: агава
 * Bulgarian: агаве,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Classical Nahuatl: metl
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto: agavo
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: agáibhe
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: агава
 * Korean: 용설란(龍舌蘭)
 * Kyrgyz: агава
 * Maltese: sabbara tal-Amerika
 * Maori: akāwei
 * Navajo: noodah
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: qara, paqpa
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: агава
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: chi thùa
 * Xhosa: ikhamanga, iralibhom

Etymology
From, from , name of one of the daughters of Cadmus, from.

Etymology
From, from , name of one of the daughters of Cadmus, from.

Etymology
From, from , name of one of the daughters of Cadmus, from.

Etymology
, from, name of one of the daughters of Cadmus, from.

Noun

 * 1)  plant of the genus

Etymology
, from, name of one of the daughters of Cadmus, from.