Agave

Examples

• All

• Many cocktails are made with agave syrup as a natural sweetener alternative.

• We have many different blue agave and stuff of that nature.

  Blog text (2)

• Aloe for you, agave for you, succulents for you.

  Garden Answer

• We've got another agave here and here, and then more cuttings.

• Amid the agave plants, a sophisticated civilization emerges.

  Academic text (2006)

• But now some Mexican growers have agreed to restore wild agaves and allow some domesticated ones to flower.

  Academic text (1999)

• Steely blue-green agaves, some thrusting up a single shoot laden with capers.

  Fiction book (2000)

• For example, cacti and agaves store water, while sagebrush has tiny leaves and creosote bush has waxy ones to slow transpiration.

  Academic text (1995)

• The Guachimontones site is full of fields of blue agave—wicked-looking plants covered in sharp barbs that grow in neat, endless rows—used to make tequila.

  Academic text (2006)

• The tall flower spikes of the agave plant bloom beautifully in the desert sun.

Compounds

A

Agave atrovirens

• Specialized

9.4

A large Mexican plant with thick leaves used to make the drinks pulque and mezcal

A

Agave americana

• Specialized

9.2

A large spiky plant that blooms once after many years and then dies

A

agave family

• Specialized

8.5

A group of plants like agave that grow well in dry, hot places

A

Agave cantala

• Specialized

9.6

A plant from the Philippines with strong rough fibers used to make rope and twine

A

Agave tequilana

• Specialized

7.5

A blue agave plant from Mexico grown to make tequila

A

Agave sisalana

• Specialized

8.6

A plant with thick, long leaves that give strong fibers used to make rope

A

American agave

8.2

A large plant with thick leaves from the Americas that makes a tall flower stalk and blooms once before dying

Surface Forms

Etymology