Century Plant Crossword Clue

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Possible answers to century plant


- A fibre
- Century plant
- Sisal fibre
- A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.

- A herb
- A lily
- Cockney greeting to Vera
- Cosmetics ingredient, ... vera
- Drug yielding plant
- Drug-yielding plant
- Emollient, ... vera

- Flat bread
- Flat circular bread
- Pocket bread
- Small round flat bread
- The century plant
- A fiber obtained from the Agave Americana and other related species, -- used for making cordage and paper. Called also pita fiber, and pita thread.
- The plant which yields the fiber.

- The century plant, a species of Agave (A. Americana). See Agave.

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