Crossword-Solution: AGAVE 5 letters, 171 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Agave	n.	A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.

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AGAVE	anagram	GAVEA

We have 171 clues for the answer “AGAVE”

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Alternative sweetener source	1 answer
Amaryllis plant.	1 answer
Base ingredient of tequila	1 answer
Blue ___ (tequila need)	1 answer
CENTURY plant (genus)	1 answer
Cactus variety	1 answer
Century plant, e.g.	1 answer
Century plant, for one	1 answer
Desert plant used to make tequila	1 answer
ECHION, wife of	1 answer
Grand Canyon plant	1 answer
Hemp-producing plant	1 answer
Hemp-yielding amaryllis	1 answer
It's used to make tequila	1 answer
Its dried stalks can be used to make didgeridoos	1 answer
Its sap becomes tequila	1 answer
Its spikes resemble candelabras	1 answer
Kind of syrup that's an alternative to honey	1 answer
Maguey, for one	1 answer
Main ingredient of mezcal	1 answer
Margarita plant	1 answer
Mescal component	1 answer
Mescal ingredient	1 answer
Mescal source	1 answer
Mesoamerican plant	1 answer
Mexican desert plant	1 answer
Mexican fiber plant.	1 answer
Mezcal base	1 answer
Mezcal plant	1 answer
Mojave plant	1 answer
ONETIME flowering plant	1 answer
PENTHEUS, mother of	1 answer
PENTHEUS, slayer of	1 answer
Patrón source	1 answer
Pineapple resembler	1 answer
Pita source	1 answer
Plant also known as American aloe	1 answer
Plant family that includes the yucca	1 answer
Plant for Jose Cuervo	1 answer
Plant of the	1 answer
Plant sacred to the Aztecs	1 answer
Plant source for tequila	1 answer
Plant that yields mescal	1 answer
Plant used for making tequila	1 answer
Plant used in tequila production	1 answer
Plant used in xeriscaping because of its tolerance to drought	1 answer
Plant used to make mescal	1 answer
Plant used to make tequila	1 answer
Plant whose juice goes into tequila	1 answer
Plant whose sap is used to make tequila	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ERAET

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with AGAVE (5)

There, you know, was the rock, still beautiful for all its scars, with its countless windows and arches and ways, tier upon tier, for a thousand feet, a vast carving of gray, broken by vine-clad terraces, and lemon and orange groves, and masses of agave and prickly pear, and puffs of almond blossom.

The Door in the Wall And Other Stories H. G. Wells 1996

Those who live near the walls desert their homes, For lo! with hissing serpents in her hair, Waving in downward whirl a blazing pine, A fiend patrols the town, like that which erst At Thebes urged on Agave (24), or which hurled Lycurgus' bolts, or that which as he came From Hades seen, at haughty Juno's word, Brought terror to the soul of Hercules.

Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars Lucan 1996

Not in other guise Orestes saw the Furies ere he fled To purge his sin within the Scythian bounds; Nor in more fierce convulsions raged the soul Of Pentheus raving; nor Agave's (26) mind When she had known her son.

Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars Lucan 1996

Nearby also, were some mescal pits used for baking the agave, a native plant that is in great demand as food by the Indians.

Arizona Sketches Joseph A. Munk 1996

This word seems to be derived from _quiotl_, which is the Aztec name for Agave, from which plant a drink not unlike beer is produced, and suggests the possibility that there might have been a time when the succulent flower stem of the Yucca furnished drink as well as food for the Indians.

Her Father’s Daughter Gene Stratton-Porter 1997

Quotes with AGAVE (2)

Frank heard the glass of water thump on the stand that he now imagined might be beside the bed, which meant it was. Finally something firm to grasp, in his mind and with his hand. He reached out very slowly, as he didn’t want to risk tearing the gauze that was so precariously holding his vital organs together. He felt wood. His fingers slid shakily over the corners of the table, feeling their reality, their solidity. He tried to picture it in his head, all rough hewn and unpa…

Thomas Alton Gardner Holy Tequila!: A Magical Adventure Under the Mexican Sun

Agave nectar is a good substitute for refined sugars. It has a relatively low glycaemic index, which means it doesn't cause quick rises in blood sugar levels. It also has a nice, mild flavour.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 315 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).