yucca : Idioms & Phrases

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genus yucca

  • noun tropical American plants with stiff lancelike leaves and spikes of white blossoms; sometimes considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae
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spoonleaf yucca

  • noun yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages
    Adam's needle-and-thread; spoonleaf yucca; needle palm; Adam's needle.
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yucca aloifolia

  • noun a stiff yucca with a short trunk; found in the southern United States and tropical America; has rigid spine-tipped leaves and clusters of white flowers
    Spanish bayonet.
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yucca baccata

  • noun tall yucca of the southwestern United States and Mexico having a woody stem and stiff swordlike pointed leaves and a large cluster of white flowers
    Spanish bayonet.
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yucca brevifolia

  • noun a large branched arborescent yucca of southwestern United States having short leaves and clustered greenish white flowers
    Joshua tree.
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yucca carnerosana

  • noun arborescent yucca of southwestern United States and northern Mexico with sword-shaped leaves and white flowers
    Spanish dagger.
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yucca elata

  • noun tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States
    soap-weed; soap tree; soapweed.
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yucca filamentosa

  • noun yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages
    Adam's needle-and-thread; spoonleaf yucca; needle palm; Adam's needle.
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yucca glauca

  • noun 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
    bear grass.
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yucca gloriosa

  • noun yucca of southeastern United States similar to the Spanish bayonets but with shorter trunk and smoother leaves
    Spanish dagger.
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Yucca moth

  • (Zoöl.), a small silvery moth (Pronuba yuccasella) whose larvæ feed on plants of the genus Yucca.
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yucca smalliana

  • noun yucca of southern United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers
    bear grass.
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yucca whipplei

  • noun yucca of southwestern United States and Mexico with a tall spike of creamy white flowers
    Our Lord's candle.
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