agave vs bear grass

bear grass vs agave

agave and bear grass both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
agave	Yes	No	No	No
bear grass	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bear grass is a hyponym of agave; that is, bear grass is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than agave:

agave: tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber
bear grass: stemless plant with tufts of grasslike leaves and erect panicle of minute creamy white flowers; southwestern United States and Mexico

Other hyponyms of agave include Agave americana, American agave, Agave sisalana, sisal, Agave cantala, cantala, maguey, Agave atrovirens, maguey, Agave tequilana, dracaena, Nolina microcarpa, bowstring hemp, sansevieria.

agave (noun)	bear grass (noun)
tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber	stemless plant with tufts of grasslike leaves and erect panicle of minute creamy white flowers; southwestern United States and Mexico
	yucca of west central United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers
	yucca of southern United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers
	plant of western North America having woody rhizomes and tufts of stiff grasslike basal leaves and spikes of creamy white flowers

Difference between agave and bear grass

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