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Century plant   /sˈɛntʃəri plænt/   Listen
Century plant

noun
1.
Tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber.  Synonyms: agave, American aloe.





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... with grim looks at her powdered locks. "Egad's life, so is the bud on a century plant young," and ...
— Heralds of Empire - Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade • Agnes C. Laut
 
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... outside, the other inside, the basket. These he sewed firmly, over and over, to the basket with a kind of fibre from a plant he had discovered that looked almost to be what he had heard called the century plant in ...
— An American Robinson Crusoe • Samuel B. Allison
 
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Words linked to "Century plant" :   sansevieria, Agave atrovirens, family Agavaceae, agave family, xerophyte, bowstring hemp, sisal family, cantala, American agave, sisal, agave, xerophile, American aloe, Nolina microcarpa, desert plant, xerophytic plant, dracaena, Agave sisalana, Agave americana, maguey, Agave tequilana, Agave cantala, xerophilous plant, Agavaceae, bear grass



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