magueyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Spanish maguey, from Taíno *mawei.

発音

• IPA^(key): /məˈɡeɪ/

名詞

maguey (複数形 magueys)

1. Any of various large agaves of Mexico and the southern US, especially the American aloe, Agave americana.

   Synonyms: agave, pita, century plant

   • 1899, Consular Reports: Commerce, manufactures, etc, page 375:

     Tequilla and mescal are similar, both liquors being distilled fom the maguey plant.

   • 1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 138:

     “Well: hardly,” said the Consul, softly as before, casting a suspicious eye for his part in the other direction at some maguey growing beyond the barranca, like a battalion moving up a slope under machine-gun fire.

   • 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC:

     […] 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.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 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

派生語

• Cebu maguey
• maguey worm
• red maguey worm (Comadia redtenbacheri)
• white maguey worm (Aegiale hesperiaris)

参照

• maguey on Wikipedia.
• Agave americana on Wikispecies.
• Agave americana on Wikimedia Commons.
• Agave americana at USDA Plants database