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Agave is a plant also known as maguey or American aloe.
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Isabel Vasquez Rd Ldn, Health, 17 July 2024
Juchitán is a grueling, five-hour drive from Oaxaca City past parched Sierra Madre peaks spiked with maguey, the raw ingredient of mezcal.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024
But mezcal can be made anywhere proper maguey is found, and around here, the gray-green Lion's Head maguey is abundant.
—John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 9 Dec. 2020
And then there are the famous worms, actually a segmented maguey grub.
—John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 9 Dec. 2020
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Isabel Vasquez Rd Ldn, Health, 17 July 2024
Juchitán is a grueling, five-hour drive from Oaxaca City past parched Sierra Madre peaks spiked with maguey, the raw ingredient of mezcal.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024
But mezcal can be made anywhere proper maguey is found, and around here, the gray-green Lion's Head maguey is abundant.
—John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 9 Dec. 2020
And then there are the famous worms, actually a segmented maguey grub.
—John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 9 Dec. 2020
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“Maguey.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maguey. Accessed 19 Sep. 2024.
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maguey
noun
ma·guey
mə-ˈgā 
plural magueys
1
: any of various agaves (as the century plant) with fleshy leaves
2
: any of several hard fibers obtained from magueys
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