maguey
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /məˈɡeɪ/
maguey (plural magueys)
- Any of various large agaves of Mexico and the southern US, especially the American aloe, Agave americana.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 424:
- through black fields, where tlachiqueros brought sheepskins slung across their backs full of fresh maguey juice to be fermented, and campesinos in white lined the right-of-way
- 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, Vintage 1992, p. 147:
- and they rode through strange forests of maguey--the aloe or century plant--with immense flowering stalks that rose forty feet into the desert air.
- Synonyms: agave, pita, century plant
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 424:
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