English Explanatory Dictionary

yucca

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
  2. The yuca (cassava).
name
  1. Ellipsis of Yucca Mountain.
  2. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Mohave County, Arizona, United States.

Pronunciation

/ˈjʌkə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-yucca.wav /ˈjuːkə/

Word forms

yucca yuccas

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

oose

Derived words

banana yucca chaparral yucca datil yucca foothill yucca Quixote yucca soaptree yucca yucca borer yuccaloeside yucca moth
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