Yucca Definition

yŭkə
yuccas
noun
Any of a genus (Yucca) of plants of the agave family, having stiff, sword-shaped leaves and white flowers in an erect raceme, found in the U.S. and Latin America.
Webster's New World
The flower of any of these plants.
Webster's New World
pronoun
The Yucca mountain.
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Other Word Forms of Yucca

Noun

Singular:
yucca
Plural:
yuccas

Origin of Yucca

  • Variant of yuca, from Galibi Carib yuca (“cassava"), because Linnaeus and others confused it with that plant.

    From Wiktionary

  • From New Latin Yucca genus name from Spanish yuca cassava from Taíno

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Yucca Sentence Examples

  • It was sweetened with the juice of yucca fruit.

  • The yucca plant is a desert lily which produces numerous creamy white flowers.

  • Innovative salads and hearty entrees make a full meal, but feel free to add a side of plantains, yucca, sautéed spinach or rice.

  • From the great juicy, leafless, branchless stalk of the yucca, soap is prepared, and strong fibres useful in making paper, rope and fabrics.

  • In the most arid regions there is a small growth of green in the rainy season, and a rich display of small wild-flowers, as well as the enormous flower clusters of the yucca, and blooms in pink and orange, crimson, yellow and scarlet of the giant cactus and its fellows.

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