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s | maguey |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun maguey is

any of various large agaves of mexico and the southern us, especially the american aloe, agave americana .

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    maguey

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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:
    • 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
  • * 1985 , Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian , Vintage 1992, p. 147:
    • 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.
    * (English Citations of "maguey") ----