cantala vs maguey what difference

what is difference between cantala and maguey

English

Noun

cantala (countable and uncountable, plural cantalas)

1. Cebu maguey; a fiber from the leaves of Agave cantala.

Anagrams

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Italian

Verb

cantala

1. Compound of imperative (tu form) of cantare and la.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish maguey, from Taíno *mawei.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈɡeɪ/

Noun

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, century plant

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:maguey.

Translations

References

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

Spanish

Alternative forms

• magüey

Etymology

Borrowed from Taíno *mawei.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈɡei/, [maˈɣ̞ei̯]

Noun

maguey m (plural magueyes)

1. (Latin America) maguey

   Synonym: pita

Further reading

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

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