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maguey.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
maguey.
Principal English Translation: 

an agave plant
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

The agave from which the juice for the alcoholic drinks pulque and tepache was extracted.
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 248.

Called metl in Nahuatl.

themes: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stockraising
Plants, Trees, Flora