AGAVE ATROVIRENS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Agave atrovirens mean? 

• AGAVE ATROVIRENS (noun)
  The noun AGAVE ATROVIRENS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: AGAVE ATROVIRENS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGAVE ATROVIRENS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Agave atrovirens; maguey

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)