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maguey

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6 lettersPronunciation /məˈɡeɪ/Part of speech nounSorted aegmuyStarts with MEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine

Word origin

Borrowed from Spanish maguey, from Taíno *mawei.

Used in a sentence

  • Tequilla and mescal are similar, both liquors being distilled fom the maguey plant.
  • “Well: hardly,” said the Consul, softly as before, casting a suspicious eye for his part in the other direction at some maguey growing beyond the barranca, like a battalion moving up a slope under machine-gun fire.
  • […]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.

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