maguey

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: mag=uey

CIDE DICTIONARY

maguey, n. [Sp. maguey, Mexican maguei and metl.].

•  Any of several species of Agave, such as the century plant (Agave Americana), a plant requiring many years to come to maturity and blossoming only once before dying; and the Agave atrovirens, a Mexican plant used especially for making pulque, the source of the colorless Mexican liquor mescal; and the cantala (Agave cantala), a Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine. See Agave.  [1913 Webster]
•  A hard fibre used in making coarse twine, derived from the Philippine Agave cantala (Agave cantala); also called cantala.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

maguey, n. an agave plant, esp. one yielding pulque.

Etymology

Sp. f. Haitian