maguey
/məˈɡeɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.73 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of various large agaves of Mexico and the southern US, especially the American aloe, Agave americana.
Example Sentences
- "Tequilla and mescal are similar, both liquors being distilled fom the maguey plant."
- "“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."
- "[…]and they rode through strange forests of maguey—the aloe or century plant—with immense flowering stalks that rose forty feet into the desert air."
- "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"