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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ma·guey /məˈge/
 龍舌蘭,其纖維

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mag·uey n.  Bot. Any of several species of Agave,  such as the century plant (Agave Americana), a plant requiring many years to come to maturity and blossoming only once before dying; and the Agave atrovirens, a Mexican plant used especially for making pulque, the source of the colorless Mexican liquor mescal; and the cantala (Agave cantala), a Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine.  See Agave.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 maguey
      n 1: Mexican plant used especially for making pulque the source
           of the colorless Mexican liquor mescal [syn: Agave
           atrovirens]
      2: Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse
         twine [syn: cantala, Agave cantala]