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name
Ellipsis of Yucca Mountain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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name
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Mohave County, Arizona, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: oose
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noun
The yuca (cassava).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, proscribed
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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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: shrub, bush
Narrower terms: Spanish bayonet, Yucca aloifolia, Yucca baccata, Joshua tree, Yucca brevifolia, Spanish dagger, Yucca carnerosana, soapweed, soap-weed, soap tree, Yucca elata, Adam's needle, Adam's needle-and-thread, spoonleaf yucca, needle palm, Yucca filamentosa, bear grass, Yucca glauca, Yucca gloriosa, Yucca smalliana, Our Lord's candle, Yucca whipplei
History
Variant of yuca, sometimes said to be from Kari'na yuca (“cassava (Manihot esculenta)”), but this latter appears to be a ghost word. The word was applied to plants of the genus Yucca (now the main sense), because Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and others confused them with the cassava.
Across languages
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