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Century plant

noun

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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"Century plant" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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

... a century plant with a blossom stem thirty feet high, and a posey accordin', one posey agin as high as my Josiah, and his father, and ...

— Samantha at the World's Fair • Marietta Holley

... 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