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English → English (gcide) Definition: Yucca moth 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]