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ˈyʌk əyuc·ca

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. yuccanoun

    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

Wiktionary

  1. yuccanoun

    Any of several evergreen plants, of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.

  2. Yuccanoun

    The Yucca mountain.

Wikipedia

  1. Yucca

    Yucca is a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae. Its 40–50 species are notable for their rosettes of evergreen, tough, sword-shaped leaves and large terminal panicles of white or whitish flowers. They are native to the hot and dry (arid) parts of the Americas and the Caribbean. Early reports of the species were confused with the cassava (Manihot esculenta). Consequently, Linnaeus mistakenly derived the generic name from the Taíno word for the latter, yuca. The Aztecs living in Mexico since before the Spanish arrival, in Nahuatl, call the local yucca species (Yucca gigantea) iczotl, which gave the Spanish izote. Izote is also used for Yucca filifera.

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  1. yucca

    A yucca is a type of evergreen shrub or tree belonging to the asparagus family. It is native to dry, hot regions, particularly the American Southwest and Mexico. It is known for its stiff, sword-shaped leaves and clusters of white, bell-shaped flowers. Some species of yucca are used for making soaps and other products, while others are kept as ornamental plants.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Yuccanoun

    see Flicker, n., 2

  2. Yuccanoun

    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

  3. Etymology: [NL., from Yuca, its name in St. Domingo.]

Wikidata

  1. Yucca

    Yucca is a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae. Its 40-50 species are notable for their rosettes of evergreen, tough, sword-shaped leaves and large terminal panicles of white or whitish flowers. They are native to the hot and dry parts of North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. Early reports of the species were confused with the cassava. Consequently, Linnaeus mistakenly derived the generic name from the Carib word for the latter, yuca. It is also colloquially known in the Midwest United States as "ghosts in the graveyard", as it is commonly found growing in rural graveyards and when in bloom the flowers appear as floating apparitions.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Yucca

    yuk′a, n. a genus of plants of natural order Liliaceæ, natives of Mexico, &c., some cultivated in gardens on account of the singularity and splendour of their appearance.—Yucca gloriosa, a native of Virginia, but quite hardy in England, the stem two or three feet high, its upper part producing a great tuft or crown of large sword-shaped evergreen leaves, each terminating in a sharp black spine. From the centre of this crown of leaves rises the flower-stalk, three feet high, branching out into a large panicle, the flowers white with a purple stripe. [West Indian name.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Yucca

    A genus (and common name) in the AGAVACEAE family. It is known for SAPONINS in the root that are used in SOAPS.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of yucca in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of yucca in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of yucca in a Sentence

  1. Catherine Cortez Masto:

    Trump’s attempt to revive Yucca Mountain is naive and would be a colossal waste of taxpayer money.

  2. Linda Shockley:

    Many families marked their loved one's burial spot with seashells or spiky yucca plants.

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