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Yucca baccata
(gcide) | Yucca \Yuc"ca\, 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.
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Note: 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.
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Yucca moth (Zool.), a small silvery moth ({Pronuba
yuccasella}) whose larvae feed on plants of the genus
Yucca.
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yucca baccata
(wn) | Yucca baccata
n 1: 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: Spanish bayonet,
Yucca baccata] |
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yucca baccata
(wn) | Yucca baccata
n 1: 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: Spanish bayonet,
Yucca baccata] |
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