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1. (n.) century plant
a desert agave, Agave americana, having a tall flower stalk emerging from a rosette of leaves, that requires a decade or more to mature and blooms only once.

Etymology: (1755–65, Amer.)

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1. (noun) agave, century plant, American aloe
tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber

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