Yucca

n.	1.	(Zool.) See Flicker, n., 2.
	1.	(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. Yucca moth (Zool.) a small silvery moth (Pronuba yuccasella) whose larvæ feed on plants of the genus Yucca.

Noun

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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

Adam's needle, Adam's needle-and-thread, bear grass, bush, genus Yucca, Joshua tree, needle palm, Our Lord's candle, shrub, soap tree, soap-weed, soapweed, Spanish bayonet, Spanish dagger, spoonleaf yucca, Yucca aloifolia, Yucca baccata, Yucca brevifolia, Yucca carnerosana, Yucca elata, Yucca filamentosa, Yucca glauca, Yucca gloriosa, Yucca smalliana, Yucca whipplei