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Yucca  n.  (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. 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.
Yucca moth (Zool.), a small silvery moth (Pronuba yuccasella) whose larvae feed on plants of the genus Yucca.






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"Yucca" Quotes from Famous Books



... I was for defying her, but David, who had the knack of women, knew a better way; he craftily proposed that we "should let Irene in," in short, should wreck her, and though I objected, she proved a great success and recognised the yucca filamentosa by its long narrow leaves the very day she joined us. Thereafter we had no more scoffing from Irene, who listened to the story as ...
— The Little White Bird - or Adventures In Kensington Gardens • J. M. Barrie

... had been declared Ultra Top Secret as soon as it had been worked out. Virtually everything was, these days. And the whole group involved in the machine and its workings had been transferred without delay to the United States Laboratories out in Yucca Flats, Nevada. ...
— That Sweet Little Old Lady • Gordon Randall Garrett (AKA Mark Phillips)



Words linked to "Yucca" :   soap tree, Yucca smalliana, genus Yucca, spoonleaf yucca, bear grass, Spanish bayonet, Yucca filamentosa, Yucca gloriosa, shrub, Yucca baccata, Yucca elata, Adam's needle, Yucca brevifolia, Yucca whipplei, Yucca carnerosana, Yucca aloifolia, Joshua tree, bush, soapweed



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