Found 2 items, similar to Yucca filamentosa.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Yucca filamentosa
Yucca filamentosa
n : yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages
[syn:
Adam's needle,
Adam's needle-and-thread,
spoonleaf yucca
,
needle palm]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Yucca filamentosa
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]