Definitions for yuccaˈyʌk ə
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
yuc•caˈyʌk ə(n.)(pl.)-cas.
any New World plant of the genus Yucca, of the agave family, having rigid sword-shaped leaves and white flowers borne in a dense terminal cluster.
Category: Plants
Origin of yucca:
1655–65; < NL, appar. < Sp; perh. orig. identical with yuca cassava
Princeton's WordNet
yucca(noun)
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
yucca(Noun)
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.
Yucca(ProperNoun)
The Yucca mountain.
Webster Dictionary
Yucca(noun)
see Flicker, n., 2
Yucca(noun)
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
U.S. National Library of Medicine
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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