Agave sisalana

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Agave sisalana - Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. ropesisalagave, American aloe, century plant - tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fibergenus Agave - type genus of the Agavaceae; in some classifications considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae