maguey
See also: magüey
English
Maguey agave plant with blossoms
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish maguey, from Taíno *mawei.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /məˈɡeɪ/
Noun
maguey (plural magueys)
- Any of various large agaves of Mexico and the southern US, especially the American aloe, Agave americana.
- Synonyms: agave, pita, century plant
- 1899, Consular Reports: Commerce, manufactures, etc (page 375)
- Tequilla and mescal are similar, both liquors being distilled fom the maguey plant.
- 1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 138:
- “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.
- 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian […] , OCLC 234287599:
- […] 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.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 424:
- through black fields, where tlachiqueros brought sheepskins slung across their backs full of fresh maguey juice to be fermented, and campesinos in white lined the right-of-way
Translations
North American agave
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References
maguey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Agave americana on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Agave americana on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Agave americana at USDA Plants database
Spanish
Alternative forms
- magüey
Etymology
Borrowed from Taíno *mawei.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maˈɡei/ [maˈɣ̞ei̯]
- Rhymes: -ei
- Syllabification: ma‧guey
Noun
maguey m (plural magueyes)
- (Latin America) maguey (large species of agave)
- Synonym: pita
Further reading
- “maguey”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014