Found 2 items, similar to Yucca.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: yucca
yucca
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
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Yucca
Yucca
\Yuc"ca\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
See
Flicker, n., 2.
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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.
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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.
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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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