maguey

Borrowed from Spanish maguey, from Taíno *mawei.

• IPA^(key): /məˈɡeɪ/

maguey (plural magueys)

1. Any of various large agaves of Mexico and the southern US, especially the American aloe, Agave americana.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 424:

     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

   • 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, Vintage 1992, p. 147:

     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.

   Synonyms: agave, pita

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:maguey.

• magüey

Borrowed from Taíno *mawei.

• IPA^(key): /maˈɡei/, [maˈɣei̯]

maguey m (plural magueyes)

1. (Latin America) maguey

   Synonym: pita

• “maguey” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.