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maguey

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Maguey (noun) means any of several large agave plants found in Mexico and the southern United States, including the American aloe.

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Any of several large agave plants found in Mexico and the southern United States, including the American aloe.

"through black fields, where tlachiqueros brought sheepskins slung across their backs full of fresh maguey juice to be fermented, and campesinos in white lined the right-of-way" — Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day (2006)

"“Well: hardly,” said the Consul, softly as before, casting a suspicious eye for his part in the other direction at some maguey growing beyond the barranca, like a battalion moving up a slope under machine-gun fire." — Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano (1947)

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