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Webster 1913 Edition
Yucca
Yuc′ca
,Noun.
[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.
☞ 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
. Yucca moth
(Zool.)
, a small silvery moth (
Pronuba yuccasella
) whose larvae feed on plants of the genus Yucca
.