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AGAVE TEQUILANA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Agave tequilana mean?
• AGAVE TEQUILANA (noun)
The noun AGAVE TEQUILANA has 1 sense:
1. Mexican plant used especially for making tequila
Familiarity information: AGAVE TEQUILANA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mexican plant used especially for making tequila
Classified under:
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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