Blue Agave is sometimes known as maguey, mexic, pita and teometl. From Wordnik.com. [Documenting Reality] Reference
The Americanized name for maguey is century plant, and they are pretty common in the Southwest. From Wordnik.com. [Alb�ndigas Soup] Reference
I can't say I'm all that fond of the taste of maguey, which is similar to a cross between pumpkin and sweet potato. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Fruit] Reference
So, maybe you were offered "maguey", which when cold looks like over-ripe fruit. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Fruit] Reference
But he tells us that the name Mexica or Mexicatl (singular) is derived from Mecitli (me = "maguey" and citli = "rabbit"). From Wordnik.com. [Aztec, Mexica, or Alien?] Reference
A maguey is a cactus. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Fruit] Reference
Meat steamed in maguey leaves: Mixiotes by. From Wordnik.com. [Meat steamed in maguey leaves: Mixiotes] Reference
"In the tzihuac bushes;" the tzihuac was a kind of maguey of a sacred character. From Wordnik.com. [Rig Veda Americanus Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, With a Gloss in Nahuatl] Reference
Plaster cast of a maguey plant excavated at Cerén. From Wordnik.com. [Insight: The Art of Gardening] Reference
Rocks, and tall organ cactus, and more miles of maguey. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
The juice of the maguey, in its unfermented state, is called. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
As soon as the maguey juice in the hog-skin has fermented, it is. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
The maguey, or Agave, is used in the manufacture of fine roping. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886] Reference
I would have expected my father to hate the maguey for that reason. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico]
I carved on the leaf of a maguey your name United with mine, interlaced. From Wordnik.com. [las pencas hablan] Reference
The new leaves of the maguey open again They come marked with our names. From Wordnik.com. [las pencas hablan] Reference
But you forgot the the maguey would know What you swore on that our night. From Wordnik.com. [las pencas hablan] Reference
It's made from the liquid at the heart of the maguey, so it must be sacred. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico]
ULMIQ: And where the cactus and the maguey meet, my dreams and my hopes are entwined. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico]
The uses to which the maguey is applied are more numerous than the methods of its cultivation. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
They transformed low-lying wetlands into fertile fields producing maize, maguey, beans and squash. From Wordnik.com. [More Than Blood and Brutality] Reference
The enemy was approaching through the tall fields and the rows of cultivated, spiked maguey plants. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Mercenary]
Scholars seek clues to the Prehispanic importance of the hearty maguey in Oaxaca's southern highlands. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico's Wonder Plant] Reference
A double strand of two-ply braided twine made of maguey fiber, lower right, was also replicated by casting. From Wordnik.com. [Insight: The Art of Gardening] Reference
On the dry hill-slopes the spikey tequila plant — a sort of maguey — flourished in its iron wickedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
The other is the flowering maguey, or century plant, of which so many fabulous stories are told in the United. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
In contrast, 'maguey/he had written in a much-quoted passage,' has always been the symbol of peace and construction. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico]
He had for some time been experiment - ing with the maguey bushes that grew luxuriantly along the edges of his palace grounds. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico]
The beverage was fermented in great amounts at maguey plantations, which now occupied fields that had once produced only cactus. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico]
It could have been in April as we walked that day along a patch of maguey, for I remember that the sun was warm but not oppressive. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico]
"I use the thorn of maguey or the pick of abalone to have more precision - no matter the time that it takes," explains the artisan. From Wordnik.com. [The Obsidian Butterfly] Reference
The area's most famous beverage is pulque, a mildly alcoholic fermentation of the juice (agua miel) extracted from the maguey plant. From Wordnik.com. [A Gastronomic Circuit Around the City or When Lost in Mexico, Follow Your Stomach: El Estado de Mexico] Reference
Not stopping, Casca began running in the direction Tezmec had pointed, out past the city's edge, out through the spiny maguey fields. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Mercenary]
Some valley dwellers also still twist maguey fibers into rope, though that craft is dying as imported synthetic rope captures the market. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico's Wonder Plant] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.