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yucca | (ยัค'คะ) n. พืชสกุลYuccaมีดอกสีขาวเป็นดอกไม้ประจำรัฐนิวเม็กซิโกในอเมริกา |
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| genus yucca | (n) tropical American plants with stiff lancelike leaves and spikes of white blossoms; sometimes considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae | yucca | (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 | adam's needle | (n) yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages, Syn. needle palm, spoonleaf yucca, Adam's needle-and-thread, Yucca filamentosa | bear grass | (n) yucca of southern United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers, Syn. Yucca smalliana | bear grass | (n) 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, Syn. Yucca glauca | joshua tree | (n) a large branched arborescent yucca of southwestern United States having short leaves and clustered greenish white flowers, Syn. Yucca brevifolia | our lord's candle | (n) yucca of southwestern United States and Mexico with a tall spike of creamy white flowers, Syn. Yucca whipplei | soapweed | (n) tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States, Syn. soap-weed, Yucca elata, soap tree | spanish bayonet | (n) 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, Syn. Yucca baccata | spanish bayonet | (n) 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, Syn. Yucca aloifolia | spanish dagger | (n) yucca of southeastern United States similar to the Spanish bayonets but with shorter trunk and smoother leaves, Syn. Yucca gloriosa | spanish dagger | (n) arborescent yucca of southwestern United States and northern Mexico with sword-shaped leaves and white flowers, Syn. Yucca carnerosana |
| Yucca | n. (Zool.) See Flicker, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ] | Yucca | ‖n. [ NL., from Yuca, its name in St. Domingo. ] (Bot.) 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 ] Yucca moth (Zool.), a small silvery moth (Pronuba yuccasella) whose larvae feed on plants of the genus Yucca. [ 1913 Webster ]
| Yucca borer | . (a) A California boring weevil (Yuccaborus frontalis). (b) A large mothlike butterfly (Megathymus yuccae) of the family Megatimidae, whose larva bores in yucca roots. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] |
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