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yucca
| yucca aloifolia
| yucca baccata
| yucca borer
| yucca brevifolia
| yucca carnerosana
yucca
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun yucca has 1 sense
- yucca(n = noun.plant) Array - 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; Array is a member of genus yucca
has particulars: spanish bayonet, yucca aloifolia, spanish bayonet, yucca baccata, joshua tree, yucca brevifolia, spanish dagger, yucca carnerosana, soap-weed, soap tree, soapweed, yucca elata, adam's needle, adam's needle-and-thread, needle palm, spoonleaf yucca, yucca filamentosa, bear grass, yucca glauca, spanish dagger, yucca gloriosa, bear grass, yucca smalliana, our lord's candle, yucca whipplei
is a kind of bush, shrub
CIDE DICTIONARY
yucca, n.
See Flicker, n. , 2. [1913 Webster]
yucca, n. [NL., from Yuca, its name in St. Domingo.].
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. [1913 Webster]
" 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 ."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
yucca, n. any American white-flowered liliaceous plant of the genus Yucca, with swordlike leaves.
Etymology
Carib
ROGET THESAURUS
yucca
Sharpness
N sharpness, acuity, acumination, spinosity, point, spike, spine, spicule, spiculum, needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin, prick, prickle, spur, rowel, barb, spit, cusp, horn, antler, snag, tag thorn, bristle, Adam's needle, bear grass, tine, yucca, nib, tooth, tusk, spoke, cog, ratchet, crag, crest, arete, cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille, spire, pyramid, steeple, beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle, comb, awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle, wedge, knife edge, cutting edge, blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor, scalpel, bistoury, lancet, plowshare, coulter, colter, hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill, billhook, cleaver, cutter, scythe, sickle, scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter, sword, bodkin, belduque, bowie knife, paring knife, bushwhacker, drawing knife, drawing shave, microtome, chisel, screwdriver blade, flint blade, guillotine, sharpener, hone, strop, grindstone, whetstone, novaculite, steel, emery, sharp, keen, acute, acicular, aciform, aculeated, acuminated, pointed, tapering, conical, pyramidal, mucronate, mucronated, spindle shaped, needle shaped, spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient, cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated, cornute, cornuted, cornicultate, prickly, spiny, spinous, spicular, thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary, craggy, snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform, dentiform, denticulated, toothed, odontoid, starlike, stellated, stelliform, sagittate, sagittiform, arrowheaded, arrowy, barbed, spurred, acinaciform, apiculate, apiculated, aristate, awned, awny, bearded, calamiform, cone-shaped, coniform, crestate, echinate, gladiate, lanceolate, lanciform, awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl- shaped, scimitar-shaped, sword-shaped, setarious, spinuliferous, subulate, tetrahedral, xiphoid, cutting, sharp edged, knife edged, sharp as a razor, keen as a razor, sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack, sharpened, set.
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