Yucca

['jʌkə]

Definition

(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.

Edited by Lenore--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Spanish-bayonet, bear-grass, Adam's needle.

Editor: Omar

Definition

n. a genus of plants of natural order Liliace natives of Mexico &c. some cultivated in gardens on account of the singularity and splendour of their appearance.—Yucca gloriosa a native of Virginia but quite hardy in England the stem two or three feet high its upper part producing a great tuft or crown of large sword-shaped evergreen leaves each terminating in a sharp black spine. From the centre of this crown of leaves rises the flower-stalk three feet high branching out into a large panicle the flowers white with a purple stripe.

Edited by Blair