blue agave

noun

: a Mexican agave (Agave tequilana) that has bluish- to greenish-gray swordlike leaves with spiny margins and is typically cultivated for the production of tequila and sometimes grown as an ornamental

Examples of blue agave in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web There are more than 200 varieties known to exist around the world, but the vast majority of them are native to Mexico, and the kind used for making tequila, blue agave, can grow to be ten feet tall and just as wide. —

Chantal Martineau, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2015 This Readers' Choice Award-winning primer uses blue agave extract to form an invisible film on the skin that sticks to makeup for an all-day hold. —

Deanna Pai, Allure, 5 Aug. 2024 The weather, coupled with an epidemic of disease infecting nearly a quarter of all blue agave in tequila country that year, was disastrous. —

Chantal Martineau, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2015 Jalisco is the largest producer of blue agave, the key ingredient in tequila. —

Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 24 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for blue agave

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