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.

  • The western dry areas have the old-world leguminous Astragalus and Prosopis (Mesquit), but are especially characterized by the northward extension of the new-world tropical Cactaceae, Mgmmillaria, Cereus and Opuntia, by succulent Amar llideae such as A gave (of which the so-called American aloe is a type), and by arborescent Liliaceae (Yucca).

  • The tree yucca often attains a height of 20 to 25 ft., and a diameter of 1.5 ft.

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