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yucca |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Yucca \Yuc"ca\, n. (Zo["o]l.) See {Flicker}, n., 2. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Yucca \Yuc"ca\, n. [NL., from Yuca, its name in St Domingo.] (Bot.) 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. Note: The species with more rigid leaves (as {Yucca aloifolia}, {Y. Treculiana}, and {Y. baccata}) are called {Spanish bayonet}, and one with softer leaves ({Y. filamentosa}) is called {bear grass}, and {Adam's needle}. {Yucca moth} (Zo["o]l.), a small silvery moth ({Pronuba yuccasella}) whose larv[ae] feed on plants of the genus Yucca. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Flicker \Flick"er\, n. 1. The act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as the last flicker of the dying flame. 2. (Zo["o]l.) The golden-winged woodpecker ({Colaptes aurutus}); -- so called from its spring note. Called also {yellow-hammer}, {high-holder}, {pigeon woodpecker}, and {yucca}. The cackle of the flicker among the oaks. --Thoureau. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: yucca n : 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
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