英语词汇“century plant”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

The rabbit zigged one last time around a scruffy boulder, ducked under an ancient century plant and stopped—dead—directly beneath the mare. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Not only are century plants seldom seen in Luthersville, Primack said, but the plant itself is “very unusual looking,” which draws attention to it. As if by miracle, a succulent grew into a 25-foot giant 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z

The agave, a type of century plant, lives a long life — then blooms once and dies. Review: Extreme alienation reigns in the Hammer Museum's (unopened) biennial 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

Although it is known as the century plant, the American agave typically lives 10 to 30 years. Huge plant that waited 80 years to flower has month to live 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

The thread used in making this lace is spun from the fiber of the leaves of the aloe, a plant resembling somewhat the century plant. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z

And then the cloud above them lightened and thundered, and they were both turned into century plants. Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona 2011-11-21T03:00:13.817Z

Once the plant finally flowers, Flournoy will look forward to watching another century plant grow in its place. As if by miracle, a succulent grew into a 25-foot giant 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z

You have probably seen century plants in the hot-houses you have visited, and have been told that they belong to the aloe family. Little Folks of North America Stories about children living in the different parts of North America 2011-09-01T02:00:19.377Z

A letter from Uncle Jabez seemed almost as infrequent as the blooming of a century plant. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z

Instead of a century plant the usual attraction now is a garden. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z

You must not think it is a 182 century plant I am tending. Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days 2011-05-27T02:00:15.860Z

After a deep dive on the internet, she learned that she had actually planted an agave Americana — commonly called a “century plant” — which is native to Mexico and parts of the United States, specifically Texas. As if by miracle, a succulent grew into a 25-foot giant 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z

The maguey plant is much like the century plant which you have seen in parks and greenhouses. American Indians 2011-04-21T02:00:55.200Z

Isn't that— Yes, it is a century plant, and it's in bloom! The Bachelors A Novel

Saw specimens of that vegetable curiosity called the "century plant", about four feet high, with large fluffy leaves like petals, with little sign of life. An Artilleryman's Diary

Growing on the roof are two maguey plants, Agave Americana, in our latitude called the century plant, but under the hot sun of the tropics blooming every four or five years. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II.

I now have an additional reason for remaining in California—to watch the new century plant flower. Ancestors A Novel

In the gardens there were century plants, orange, lemon, and palm trees, and rose bushes of great size covered with bloom. A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise

While it was still light Driscoll amused himself strolling alone between the rows of the great century plants. The Missourian

The main source of supply came from reeds, rushes, wild flax, cotton, fibres of the century plant, the inner bark of trees, and other sources according to the environment. History of Human Society

The volatile oil of the century plant is said to evaporate so rapidly as to freeze the water deposited in it. Aztec Land

White-stoned cottages lined the waters to the left, and decorated the slopes of the hills, which were full of cacti, century plants and thousands of other floral beauties. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886

It resembles that wonderful century plant which, after decades of developing, flowers and dies. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch

And who knows, some of them may turn out regular century plants. Peggy-Alone

Some blossom early, some late, some manifest a nature like the violet, others the rose, the water lily or the century plant. The Right Knock A Story

Indeed, it is best known with us at the north as the century plant, a popular fallacy having become attached to it, that it blooms but once in a hundred years. Aztec Land

The plant is familiar to us as the common century plant of our gardens. The Western United States A Geographical Reader

The fences here are chiefly formed by rows of the maguey or century plant, growing at the side of a ditch. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited

First came, along the centre passage, which was covered with cloth of gold, a number of beautiful boys, who strewed the way with hyacinths, and jasmines, and the costly blossoms of the century plant. Ting-a-ling

By the same token the well-known "American aloe," or century plant, is not an aloe, but an agave. Ranching, Sport and Travel

There are many century plants about the grounds; they blossom in this climate after twelve years, and die after the tall homely flower has come to maturity. A Truthful Woman in Southern California

"Egad's life, so is the bud on a century plant young," and he turns to his wife. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade

Such is the century plant—in botanical language, the Agava Americana. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited

Sainthood comes slowly, like the blossom on a century plant; there must be a hundred years of thorny stem-life first. Ole Mammy's Torment

His century plants cannot be forced to blossom in a night. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service

I am tired of a world where love is like the blossom of the century plant, unfolding only once in a hundred years. A String of Amber Beads

The flower stalk is only twelve or thirteen inches high, and I should not wonder if this diminutive and beautiful century plant some day became fashionable in greenhouses. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan

The other is the flowering maguey, or century plant, of which so many fabulous stories are told in the United States. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited

In Mexico the century plant is turned to practical account and made a profitable investment to its owners. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886

On either side of the carriage road which swept round before the most elegant of these villas, that of Mr. Porteous, we noticed rows of the mystic century plant. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

For there, instead of the cow, a sort of century plant gives milky white pulque, the fermented juice of this cactuslike desert plant. The Complete Book of Cheese

Here are also found century plants, or agaves, and many species of small ferns, such as the graceful maidenhair. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan

The century plant is wonderfully suggestive and wonderfully beautiful, but I never look at it without thinking of its parsimony. New Tabernacle Sermons

A huge agave, or century plant, is now blooming at Auburn, N.Y. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886

Here is one of these flowers; a century plant it is, watered with precious blood, and abloom in sweet solitude. Sketches of the Covenanters

He is then at some pains to understand his visitor's extravagant interest and delight over loquats, chiramoyas, alligator pears, tamarinds, guavas, the blooming of century plants, the fruits of chollas and the like. The Rules of the Game

It grew visibly like the stalk of a century plant. The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado

"Most of all, the century plant: how is she?" The Mettle of the Pasture

The inflorescence of the century plant is peculiar, and the appearance of flowers on the lower branches may be simultaneous with, or consecutive to, the blossoming on the upper limbs. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886

In general appearance it resembles the century plant, though so much smaller that twelve thousand pineapple plants may be grown on one acre. Science in the Kitchen.

Of the movable plants that had belonged to Washington there remained in 1858 only a lemon tree, a century plant and a sago palm, all of which have since died. George Washington: Farmer

It is commonly known as mescal, but is also called the century plant from a mistaken notion that it blossoms only once in a hundred years. Arizona Sketches

She was the magnolia on the family tree, the bloom on a century plant that was heavy with its first bud. Star-Dust

It is commonly supposed that this plant, the Agave Americana, or American aloe, blooms only at the end of 100 years, hence the common name century plant. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886

In some places, bunches of century plants showed their hard spikes, sharp as daggers, over the low walls. Cæsar or Nothing

We are headquarters for the century plant that draws a salary for ninety-nine years and then dies. Remarks

This son-in-law, of whom she has always been especially fond, is a Prince of amiable and noble disposition, good ability and remarkable cultivation; not exactly a second Prince Albert— he was a century plant. Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood

They hang from cacti spines and over thorns on the big century plant and lemon tree. Moths of the Limberlost

Thirty years ago, a century plant, of which the Casey aloe was a slip, flowered in the greenhouses of the Van Rensselaer family at Albany. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886

He had long stood rooted passively in the soil of being like a century plant when it is merely keeping itself in existence. The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields

Between the trees were century plants and flowers, and a clipped border ran before them. The Land of Footprints

They are pronounced not American aloes, or century plants, but Agave Virginica, a plant of the same family commonly found in sterile soil from Virginia to Illinois and south, and blossoming much more frequently. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886

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例句	century plant The rabbit zigged one last time around a scruffy boulder, ducked under an ancient century plant and stopped—dead—directly beneath the mare. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Not only are century plants seldom seen in Luthersville, Primack said, but the plant itself is “very unusual looking,” which draws attention to it. As if by miracle, a succulent grew into a 25-foot giant 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z The agave, a type of century plant, lives a long life — then blooms once and dies. Review: Extreme alienation reigns in the Hammer Museum's (unopened) biennial 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Although it is known as the century plant, the American agave typically lives 10 to 30 years. Huge plant that waited 80 years to flower has month to live 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z The thread used in making this lace is spun from the fiber of the leaves of the aloe, a plant resembling somewhat the century plant. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z And then the cloud above them lightened and thundered, and they were both turned into century plants. Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona 2011-11-21T03:00:13.817Z Once the plant finally flowers, Flournoy will look forward to watching another century plant grow in its place. As if by miracle, a succulent grew into a 25-foot giant 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z You have probably seen century plants in the hot-houses you have visited, and have been told that they belong to the aloe family. Little Folks of North America Stories about children living in the different parts of North America 2011-09-01T02:00:19.377Z A letter from Uncle Jabez seemed almost as infrequent as the blooming of a century plant. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z Instead of a century plant the usual attraction now is a garden. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z You must not think it is a 182 century plant I am tending. Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days 2011-05-27T02:00:15.860Z After a deep dive on the internet, she learned that she had actually planted an agave Americana — commonly called a “century plant” — which is native to Mexico and parts of the United States, specifically Texas. As if by miracle, a succulent grew into a 25-foot giant 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z The maguey plant is much like the century plant which you have seen in parks and greenhouses. American Indians 2011-04-21T02:00:55.200Z Isn't that— Yes, it is a century plant, and it's in bloom! The Bachelors A Novel Saw specimens of that vegetable curiosity called the "century plant", about four feet high, with large fluffy leaves like petals, with little sign of life. An Artilleryman's Diary Growing on the roof are two maguey plants, Agave Americana, in our latitude called the century plant, but under the hot sun of the tropics blooming every four or five years. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. I now have an additional reason for remaining in California—to watch the new century plant flower. Ancestors A Novel In the gardens there were century plants, orange, lemon, and palm trees, and rose bushes of great size covered with bloom. A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise While it was still light Driscoll amused himself strolling alone between the rows of the great century plants. The Missourian The main source of supply came from reeds, rushes, wild flax, cotton, fibres of the century plant, the inner bark of trees, and other sources according to the environment. History of Human Society The volatile oil of the century plant is said to evaporate so rapidly as to freeze the water deposited in it. Aztec Land White-stoned cottages lined the waters to the left, and decorated the slopes of the hills, which were full of cacti, century plants and thousands of other floral beauties. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 It resembles that wonderful century plant which, after decades of developing, flowers and dies. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch And who knows, some of them may turn out regular century plants. Peggy-Alone Some blossom early, some late, some manifest a nature like the violet, others the rose, the water lily or the century plant. The Right Knock A Story Indeed, it is best known with us at the north as the century plant, a popular fallacy having become attached to it, that it blooms but once in a hundred years. Aztec Land The plant is familiar to us as the common century plant of our gardens. The Western United States A Geographical Reader The fences here are chiefly formed by rows of the maguey or century plant, growing at the side of a ditch. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited First came, along the centre passage, which was covered with cloth of gold, a number of beautiful boys, who strewed the way with hyacinths, and jasmines, and the costly blossoms of the century plant. Ting-a-ling By the same token the well-known "American aloe," or century plant, is not an aloe, but an agave. Ranching, Sport and Travel There are many century plants about the grounds; they blossom in this climate after twelve years, and die after the tall homely flower has come to maturity. A Truthful Woman in Southern California "Egad's life, so is the bud on a century plant young," and he turns to his wife. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade Such is the century plant—in botanical language, the Agava Americana. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited Sainthood comes slowly, like the blossom on a century plant; there must be a hundred years of thorny stem-life first. Ole Mammy's Torment His century plants cannot be forced to blossom in a night. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service I am tired of a world where love is like the blossom of the century plant, unfolding only once in a hundred years. A String of Amber Beads The flower stalk is only twelve or thirteen inches high, and I should not wonder if this diminutive and beautiful century plant some day became fashionable in greenhouses. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan The other is the flowering maguey, or century plant, of which so many fabulous stories are told in the United States. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited In Mexico the century plant is turned to practical account and made a profitable investment to its owners. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 On either side of the carriage road which swept round before the most elegant of these villas, that of Mr. Porteous, we noticed rows of the mystic century plant. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy For there, instead of the cow, a sort of century plant gives milky white pulque, the fermented juice of this cactuslike desert plant. The Complete Book of Cheese Here are also found century plants, or agaves, and many species of small ferns, such as the graceful maidenhair. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan The century plant is wonderfully suggestive and wonderfully beautiful, but I never look at it without thinking of its parsimony. New Tabernacle Sermons A huge agave, or century plant, is now blooming at Auburn, N.Y. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 Here is one of these flowers; a century plant it is, watered with precious blood, and abloom in sweet solitude. Sketches of the Covenanters He is then at some pains to understand his visitor's extravagant interest and delight over loquats, chiramoyas, alligator pears, tamarinds, guavas, the blooming of century plants, the fruits of chollas and the like. The Rules of the Game It grew visibly like the stalk of a century plant. The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado "Most of all, the century plant: how is she?" The Mettle of the Pasture The inflorescence of the century plant is peculiar, and the appearance of flowers on the lower branches may be simultaneous with, or consecutive to, the blossoming on the upper limbs. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 In general appearance it resembles the century plant, though so much smaller that twelve thousand pineapple plants may be grown on one acre. Science in the Kitchen. Of the movable plants that had belonged to Washington there remained in 1858 only a lemon tree, a century plant and a sago palm, all of which have since died. George Washington: Farmer It is commonly known as mescal, but is also called the century plant from a mistaken notion that it blossoms only once in a hundred years. Arizona Sketches She was the magnolia on the family tree, the bloom on a century plant that was heavy with its first bud. Star-Dust It is commonly supposed that this plant, the Agave Americana, or American aloe, blooms only at the end of 100 years, hence the common name century plant. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 In some places, bunches of century plants showed their hard spikes, sharp as daggers, over the low walls. Cæsar or Nothing We are headquarters for the century plant that draws a salary for ninety-nine years and then dies. Remarks This son-in-law, of whom she has always been especially fond, is a Prince of amiable and noble disposition, good ability and remarkable cultivation; not exactly a second Prince Albert— he was a century plant. Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood They hang from cacti spines and over thorns on the big century plant and lemon tree. Moths of the Limberlost Thirty years ago, a century plant, of which the Casey aloe was a slip, flowered in the greenhouses of the Van Rensselaer family at Albany. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 He had long stood rooted passively in the soil of being like a century plant when it is merely keeping itself in existence. The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields Between the trees were century plants and flowers, and a clipped border ran before them. The Land of Footprints They are pronounced not American aloes, or century plants, but Agave Virginica, a plant of the same family commonly found in sterile soil from Virginia to Illinois and south, and blossoming much more frequently. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886
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