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maguey
Any of various large agaves of Mexico and the southern US, especially the American aloe, Agave americana.
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[…] and they rode through strange forests of maguey—the aloe or century plant—with immense flowering stalks that rose forty feet into the desert air.
through black fields, where tlachiqueros brought sheepskins slung across their backs full of fresh maguey juice to be fermented, and campesinos in white lined the right-of-way