Synonyms and Antonyms of agave

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

plant adapted for life with a limited supply of water; compare hydrophyte and mesophyte (noun.plant)

widely cultivated American monocarpic plant with greenish-white flowers on a tall stalk; blooms only after ten to twenty years and then dies (noun.plant)

Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope (noun.plant)

Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine (noun.plant)

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

Mexican plant used especially for making tequila (noun.plant)

an agave that is often cultivated for its decorative foliage (noun.plant)

stemless plant with tufts of grasslike leaves and erect panicle of minute creamy white flowers; southwestern United States and Mexico (noun.plant)

grown as a houseplant for its mottled fleshy sword-shaped leaves or as a source of fiber (noun.plant)

chiefly tropical and xerophytic plants: includes Dracenaceae (Dracaenaceae); comprises plants that in some classifications are divided between the Ama more.. chiefly tropical and xerophytic plants: includes Dracenaceae (Dracaenaceae); comprises plants that in some classifications are divided between the Amaryllidaceae and the Liliaceae (noun.plant)