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yucca
/ˈjʌkə/
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What does yucca mean?
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.
proper noun
- Ellipsis of Yucca Mountain.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Mohave County, Arizona, United States.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (obsolete) The yuca (cassava).
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/ˈjʌkə/
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Fine specimens of yucca grow on the Mojave desert in California that are large and numerous enough to form a straggling forest.
I receive the first answer from another and much earlier Epeira, whose family I find, at the beginning of May, on a yucca in the enclosure.
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The few trees and bushes which are common in central Chile decreased rapidly in numbers, and were replaced by a tall plant, something like a yucca in appearance.
For a long time it seemed as if an exception to this rule existed in the case of the fertilisation of the yucca blossoms by a little moth, Pronuba yuccasella.
The trunk is divided into a great number of branches, which rise in the form of a candelabrum, and are terminated by tufts of leaves, like the yucca which adorns the valley of Mexico.