Noun:

रामबांस,

agave's Usage Examples:

- Lower Portion of Leaf Go of Codex Dresdensis, with figures of four deities and groups of hieroglyphs on Agave paper.

The peculiar plants of the Rocky Mountain plateaus penetrate into the Trans-Pecos region, which the north Mexican flora, including the Agave lecheguilla, a valuable commercial fibre, is found along the Rio Grande.

The gathering and preparation of "ixtle" fibres from the agave and yucca forms another important industry, the fibre being sent to Tampico for export.

Rum is a by-product of the sugar industry, and "mescal" is distilled from the agave.

The cochineal insect is found on the cactus which grows in abundance in the vicinity, and the town is known throughout Ecuador for its manufacture of boots and shoes, and for a cordage made from cabuya, the fibre of the agave plant.

Boletus edulis, in the Oriental Trehala and in ergot of rye; melibiose, C12H22011, formed, with fructose, on hydrolysing the trisaccharose melitose (or raffinose), C18H32016.5H20, which occurs in Australian manna and in the molasses of sugar manufacture; touranose, C12H22011, formed with d-glucose and galactose on hydrolysing another trisaccharose, melizitose, C,8H32016 2H20, which occurs in Pinus larix and in Persian manna; and agavose, C12H22011, found in the stalks of Agave americana.

The "Century-plant" is a name given to the Agave, or American aloe, from the supposition that it flowered once only in every hundred years.

The chief cultivated plants are maize, the sugar-cane, tobacco, cotton, coffee and especially henequen, the so-called "Sisal hemp," which is a strong, coarse fibre obtained from the leaves of the Agave rigida, var.

The plant called American aloe, Agave americana, belongs to a different order, viz.

This terminates in a long spike thickly studded with white blossoms. The grass-tree gives as distinct a character to an Australian picture as the agave and cactus do to the Mexican landscape.

Synonyms:

bowstring hemp, xerophytic plant, Agave atrovirens, xerophilous plant, Agave cantala, cantala, American aloe, family Agavaceae, Agavaceae, bear grass, Nolina microcarpa, sansevieria, desert plant, sisal, American agave, century plant, xerophyte, dracaena, agave family, Agave tequilana, Agave americana, sisal family, Agave sisalana, maguey, xerophile,