AGAVE TEQUILANA

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Meaning:

Mexican plant used especially for making tequila

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Agave tequilana" 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 tequilana"):

tequila (Mexican liquor made from fermented juices of an agave plant)

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

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

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