agave

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀγαυή (Agauḗ, “Agave”), from ἀγαυός (agauós, “noble, illustrious”).

• IPA^(key): /əˈɡɑːveɪ/, /əˈɡeɪviː/

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• Rhymes: -eɪvi

agave (plural agaves)

1. A plant of the genus Agave, which includes the maguey or century plant (Agave americana), which produces a gigantic flower stem at maturity.
   • 1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), pages 25-26:

     It was one of the large, vicious varieties of agave, each individual plant an upturned rosette of stiff, fibrous, fleshy leaves, some of them over a meter long on the big parent plants.

• Agave on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Agave on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Agave on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• agave at USDA Plants database
• aloe
• maguey

From New Latin Agave, from Ancient Greek Ἀγαυή (Agauḗ), name of one of the daughters of Cadmus, from ἀγαυός (agauós, “noble, illustrious”).

agave c (singular definite agaven, plural indefinite agaver)

1. agave

• “agave” in Den Danske Ordbog

From New Latin Agave, from Ancient Greek Ἀγαυή (Agauḗ), name of one of the daughters of Cadmus, from ἀγαυός (agauós, “noble, illustrious”).

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡav/

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agave m (plural agaves)

1. agave

• “agave”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From New Latin Agave, from Ancient Greek Ἀγαυή (Agauḗ), name of one of the daughters of Cadmus, from ἀγαυός (agauós, “noble, illustrious”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡa.ve/
• Rhymes: -aɡave
• Hyphenation: à‧ga‧ve

agave f (plural agavi)

1. agave

Borrowed from New Latin Agave, from Ancient Greek Ἀγαυή (Agauḗ), name of one of the daughters of Cadmus, from ἀγαυός (agauós, “noble, illustrious”).

agave m (plural agaves)

1. agave (plant of the genus Agave)

From translingual Agave, from Ancient Greek Ἀγαυή (Agauḗ), name of one of the daughters of Cadmus, from ἀγαυός (agauós, “noble, illustrious”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈɡabe/ [aˈɣ̞a.β̞e]
• Rhymes: -abe
• Syllabification: a‧ga‧ve

agave m (plural agaves)

1. agave

   Synonym: pita

• maguey
• mezcal

• “agave”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014