About The Word Yucca
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Yucca
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What's The Definition Of Yucca?
[n] any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca having usually tall stout stems and a terminal cluster of white flowers; warmer regions of North America
Synonyms | Synonyms for Yucca: Related Terms | Find terms related to Yucca: See Also | Adam's needle | Adam's needle-and-thread | bear grass | bush | genus Yucca | Joshua tree | needle palm | Our Lord's candle | shrub | soap tree | soapweed | Spanish bayonet | Spanish dagger | spoonleaf yucca | Yucca aloifolia | Yucca baccata | Yucca brevifolia | Yucca carnerosana | Yucca elata | Yucca filamentosa | Yucca glauca | Yucca gloriosa | Yucca smalliana | Yucca whipplei Yucca In Webster's Dictionary \Yuc"ca\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
See {Flicker}, n., 2.
\Yuc"ca\, n. [NL., from Yuca, its name in St. Domingo.] (Bot.) A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms. Note: The species with more rigid leaves (as {Yucca aloifolia}, {Y. Treculiana}, and {Y. baccata}) are called {Spanish bayonet}, and one with softer leaves ({Y. filamentosa}) is called {bear grass}, and {Adam's needle}. {Yucca moth} (Zo["o]l.), a small silvery moth ({Pronuba yuccasella}) whose larv[ae] feed on plants of the genus Yucca. |
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