| 词汇 | agave |
| 释义 | agave noun uk /əˈɡɑː.vi/ us /əˈɡɑː.vi/ [ C or U ] a plant that grows in the hot, dry parts of the southern US and South America. There are many different types of agave and the plants have thick long or rounded leaves with sharp points on them, and tall flowers: 龙舌兰（生长在南北美洲热带干旱地区） Agaves come in numerous shapes, sizes, and colours. A glut of agave has made the plant almost worthless. Compare century plant Videowok_art/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages [ U ] a thick, sweet liquid produced from the centre of the agave plant, used for making food taste sweeter: 龙舌兰糖浆，龙舌兰蜜 Honey or agave would work well in this recipe. The agave gives the salad dressing that little bit of sweetness. Synonym agave nectar Common plants African violet aloe aloe vera alpine strawberry anise dichondra dieffenbachia dill weed dracaena Easter lily loganberry maidenhair fern maize mandrake mare's tail sorrel sotol sow thistle Spanish moss spearmint You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Sugar & sugar substitutes Examples of agaveagave Given the fact that wild agave is abundant throughout the basin, the interpretation of these combustion features as mescal ovens does not seem farfetched. We have no figures on the caloric and nutritional values of roasted agave flesh. The cotton textile appears to be in addition to and overlaying the agave fiber textiles and adornments that covered the interments. This finding agrees with those investigators who refer to agave as the principal source of fiber for textiles as well as cordage. In the highlands, agave products are eaten most often just before harvests when stores of maize are lowest. The hard fibers from agave leaves are actually bundles of individual sclerenchyma fibers that are usually associated with vascular bundles of the leaf. The commodities included craft items such as groundstone tools and painted gourds as well as agricultural specialities such as agave for fiber. Therefore, most agave plants will be unproductive in any given year and will occupy a good deal of planting space. The agave fibers we have identified to date appear to have been extracted using a variety of processing techniques. It is still not clear whether the range of treatments agave fibers would have received would consistently produce the variation exhibited by these specimens. Agave fiber appears principally as aggregates of unwoven bundles of sclerified fibers that occur in various states of decomposition, either purposeful or postmortem. Agave is the most common fiber occurring in both chambers. Later, as they left the mission and were walking home, he ordered her to carry a pot containing mescal, a distilled alcoholic beverage made from agave. Cotton and agave fibers and at least two other tentatively identified fiber types are associated with the interments and represent clothing, burial shrouds, and personal accoutrements. Agave fibers provide the structural support of the plant's fleshy leaf. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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