Yucca

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, native to the warmer regions of North America, having often tall stout stems and a terminal cluster of white flowers.
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  • n. 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. See flicker, n., 2.
  • n. 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 Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The name given in western South America to Manihot Aipi (see Manioc). The latter name is not known in Peru and Chile or Bolivia, only ‘yuca’ being used. It is extensively consumed as a vegetable. The name is also common throughout Central America.
  • n. A plant of the genus Yucca.
  • n. [capitalized] [NL. (Dillenius, 1719).] A genus of liliaceous plants, of the tribe Dracæneæ.
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  • n. 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
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    shrub    bush   
    Cross Reference
    yucca cactus   
    Variant
    flicker   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    felucca   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sagebrush    mesquite    cholla    cacti    greasewood   
     
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