Meaning of YUCCA
| Pronunciation: | | 'yuku
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| | Definition: | | [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 |
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| | 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 | |
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\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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