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AGAVE ATROVIRENS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Mexican plant used especially for making pulque which is the source of the colorless Mexican liquor, mescal

Synonyms:

Agave atrovirens; maguey

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Agave atrovirens" is a kind of...):

agave; American aloe; century plant (tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber)

Meronyms (substance of "Agave atrovirens"):

pulque (fermented Mexican drink from juice of various agave plants especially the maguey)

mescal (a colorless Mexican liquor distilled from fermented juices of certain desert plants of the genus Agavaceae (especially the century plant))

Holonyms ("Agave atrovirens" is a member of...):

genus Agave (type genus of the Agavaceae; in some classifications considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae)

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