yucca
(noun) 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
Source: WordNet® 3.1
yucca (plural yuccas)
Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.
(now, proscribed, obsolete) The yuca (cassava).
While yucca was formerly also used on occasion to refer to the yuca (cassava), this usage is now regarded as erroneous.
• oose (US)
• Adam's needle
• Joshua tree
Yucca
The Yucca mountain.
Source: Wiktionary
Yuc"ca, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: See Flicker, n., 2.
Yuc"ca, n. Etym: [NL., from Yuca, its name in St. Domingo.] (Bot.)
Definition: 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 (Zoöl.), a small silvery moth (Pronuba yuccasella) whose larvæ feed on plants of the genus Yucca.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
