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bear grass
(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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bear grass
(wn) | bear grass
n 1: 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: bear grass, {Yucca
smalliana}]
2: 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: bear grass, Yucca glauca]
3: stemless plant with tufts of grasslike leaves and erect
panicle of minute creamy white flowers; southwestern United
States and Mexico [syn: bear grass, Nolina microcarpa]
4: plant of western North America having woody rhizomes and
tufts of stiff grasslike basal leaves and spikes of creamy
white flowers [syn: squaw grass, bear grass, {Xerophyllum
tenax}] |
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