Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun american_agave
1 sense of american agave
Sense 1
American agave, Agave americana -- (widely cultivated American monocarpic plant with greenish-white flowers on a tall stalk; blooms only after ten to twenty years and then dies)
=> agave, century plant, American aloe -- (tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber)