Crossword-Solution: MAGUEY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Maguey | n. | The century plant, a species of Agave (A. Americana). See Agave. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “MAGUEY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A century plant | 1 answer |
| Agave plant yielding fiber | 1 answer |
| Tequila cactus | 1 answer |
| Type of agave | 1 answer |
| tropical American agave plant | 1 answer |
| Hard fibre used for making twine | 2 answers |
| AMERICAN aloe | 3 answers |
| Kind of cactus | 4 answers |
| Mexican cactus | 5 answers |
| Century plant | 8 answers |
| Agave | 9 answers |
| Agave plant | 11 answers |
| Aloe | 20 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MZEEAC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MAGUEY (5)
The peccary, Gila monster, tarantula, centipede, scorpion and horned toad are specimens of its strange animal life; and, the numerous species of cacti, yucca, maguey, palo verde and mistletoe are samples of its curious vegetation.
When I saw it last it was but a smoking ruin, and now doubtless it is the home of bats and jackals; now it is “a court for owls,” now “the line of confusion is stretched out upon it and the stones of emptiness fill its streets.” Passing from the mouth of the gorge we travelled some miles across the plain, every foot of which was cultivated with corn, _maguey_ or aloe, and other crops, till we came to one of the four gates of the city.
The Mexican drink mescal is made from the maguey-plant and is a frightfully horrid thing that sends the peon out of his senses and makes him violent.
Thus we can allow for alien elements in such gods and goddesses as Zeus Asterios, as Aphrodite of Cyprus or Eryx, or the many-breasted Ephesian Artemis, whose monstrous form had its exact analogue among the Aztecs in that many-breasted goddess of the maguey plant whence beer was made.
One author states that they made paper from the membrane of trees—from the substance that grows beneath the upper bark.45 But they also used for this purpose a plant, called the maguey plant.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2004–2013).