| yucca | <zoology> See Flicker. <botany> 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. The species with more rigid leaves (as Yucca aloifolia, Y. Treculiana, and Y. Baccata) are called Spanish bayonet, and one with softer leaves (Y. Filamentosa) is called bear grass, and Adam's needle. <zoology> Yucca moth, a small silvery moth (Pronuba yuccasella) whose larvae feed on plants of the genus Yucca. Origin: NL, from Yuca, its name in St. Domingo. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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Synonyms :
| yucca | any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca having usually tall stout stems and a terminal cluster of white flowers |
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| yucca | a stiff yucca with a short trunk |
| yucca | tall woody-stemmed yucca of southwestern United States and Mexico having stiff swordlike pointed leaves and a large cluster of white flowers |
| yucca | a large branched arborescent yucca of southwestern United States having short leaves and clustered greenish white flowers |
| yucca | arborescent yucca of southwestern United States and northern Mexico with sword-shaped leaves and white flowers |
| yucca | tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States |
| yucca | yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages |
| yucca | 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 |
| yucca | yucca of southeastern United States similar to the Spanish bayonets but with shorter trunk and smoother leaves |
| yucca | yucca of southern United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers |
| yucca | yucca of southwestern United States and Mexico with a tall spike of creamy white flowers |
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