Definition of yucca Yucca
/jʌˈkʌ/ - [yuku] - yuc•ca
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What does yucca mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: yuccas |
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| yucca - 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 | ||
| shrub, bush a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems | ||
| genus yucca tropical American plants with stiff lancelike leaves and spikes of white blossoms; sometimes considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae | ||
| yucca aloifolia, spanish bayonet 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 | ||
| yucca baccata, spanish bayonet 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 | ||
| joshua tree, yucca brevifolia a large branched arborescent yucca of southwestern United States having short leaves and clustered greenish white flowers | ||
| yucca carnerosana, spanish dagger arborescent yucca of southwestern United States and northern Mexico with sword-shaped leaves and white flowers | ||
| soap-weed, soap tree, soapweed, yucca elata tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States | ||
| adam's needle, adam's needle-and-thread, needle palm, spoonleaf yucca, yucca filamentosa yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages | ||
| yucca glauca, bear grass stemless plant with tufts of grasslike leaves and erect panicle of minute creamy white flowers; southwestern United States and Mexico | ||
| yucca gloriosa, spanish dagger arborescent yucca of southwestern United States and northern Mexico with sword-shaped leaves and white flowers | ||
| yucca smalliana, bear grass stemless plant with tufts of grasslike leaves and erect panicle of minute creamy white flowers; southwestern United States and Mexico | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- yucca (n.)
See Flicker, n., 2. - yucca (n.)
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.
Wikipedia 
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Yucca is a family of shrubs and trees, related to the agaves. There are between 40 and 50 different kinds of Yucca. All come from the hot and dry places in North and Central America, as well as the Carribean.
They have a very special way of pollination. There is an animal, the Yucca moth, which does the pollination. It also lays its eggs in the plant. The larvae will eat some of the seeds, but not all of them.
In many parts of the world, yuccas are grown as ornamental flowers.
Part of speech
🔤- yucca, noun, singular of yuccas.
