(n): a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
(n): succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in Africa
(n): a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs
...returning home by ferry and full bus
where workers spit the aloes taste of day
and talk of politics and flood and drouth...
- Peter Reading, Letter in Winter, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974