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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: bear grass
bear grass
n 1: yucca of southern United States having a clump of basal
grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal
raceme of small whitish flowers [syn:
Yucca smalliana]
2: yucca of west central United States having a clump of basal
grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal
raceme of small whitish flowers [syn:
Yucca glauca]
3: stemless plant with tufts of grasslike leaves and erect
panicle of minute creamy white flowers; southwestern
United States and Mexico [syn:
Nolina microcarpa]
4: plant of western North America having woody rhizomes and
tufts of stiff grasslike basal leaves and spikes of creamy
white flowers [syn:
squaw grass,
Xerophyllum tenax]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: bear grass
Yucca
\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.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The species with more rigid leaves (as
Yucca aloifolia
,
Yucca Treculiana, and
Yucca baccata)
are called
Spanish bayonet, and one with softer
leaves (
Yucca filamentosa) is called
bear grass,
and
Adam's needle.
[1913 Webster]
Yucca moth (Zo["o]l.), a small silvery moth (
Pronuba yuccasella
) whose larv[ae] feed on plants of the genus
Yucca.
[1913 Webster]
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