YUCCA

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

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Etymology

Noun

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).

Usage notes

While yucca was formerly also used on occasion to refer to the yuca (cassava), this usage is now regarded as erroneous.

Synonyms

• oose (US)

Hyponyms

• Adam's needle

• Joshua tree

Proper noun

Yucca

The Yucca mountain.

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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