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YUCCA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yucca mean? 

YUCCA (noun)
  The noun YUCCA has 1 sense:

1. 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 Americaplay

  Familiarity information: YUCCA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


YUCCA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("yucca" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yucca"):

Spanish bayonet; Yucca aloifolia (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; Yucca baccata (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)

Joshua tree; Yucca brevifolia (a large branched arborescent yucca of southwestern United States having short leaves and clustered greenish white flowers)

Spanish dagger; Yucca carnerosana (arborescent yucca of southwestern United States and northern Mexico with sword-shaped leaves and white flowers)

soap-weed; soap tree; soapweed; Yucca elata (tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States)

Adam's needle; Adam's needle-and-thread; needle palm; spoonleaf yucca; Yucca filamentosa (yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages)

bear grass; Yucca glauca (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)

Spanish dagger; Yucca gloriosa (yucca of southeastern United States similar to the Spanish bayonets but with shorter trunk and smoother leaves)

bear grass; Yucca smalliana (yucca of southern United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers)

Our Lord's candle; Yucca whipplei (yucca of southwestern United States and Mexico with a tall spike of creamy white flowers)

Holonyms ("yucca" is a member of...):

genus Yucca (tropical American plants with stiff lancelike leaves and spikes of white blossoms; sometimes considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae)


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