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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: bear grass (0.01029 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to bear grass.
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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