Maguey - What does it mean?
maguey | |
Any of various large agaves of Mexico and the southern US, especially the American aloe, Agave americana .
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 424:
* 1985 , Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian , Vintage 1992, p. 147:
maguey
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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
- 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.