agave

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   any of a genus of succulent plants with a rosette of thick, often spiny leaves and a tall flowering stalk

   A mature agave sent up a flowering stalk far above its broad rosette of leaves.

2. 2
   noun

   a sweet syrup made from the sap or processed juice of certain agave plants

   The cook used a spoonful of agave to sweeten the drink.

Borrowed from New Latin Agave, the botanical genus named by Linnaeus from Greek Agauē, related to agauos ("admirable, illustrious"). The name entered English in the eighteenth century for the American plants formerly confused with aloes.

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