English > yucca: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca having usually tall stout stems and a terminal cluster of white flowers; warmer regions / regions of North America. |
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| Member of | genus Yucca | Tropical American plants with stiff lancelike leaves and spikes of white blossoms |
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| Narrower | Adam's needle, Adam's needle-and-thread, spoonleaf yucca, needle palm, Yucca filamentosa | yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages |
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| Joshua tree, Yucca brevifolia | A large branched arborescent yucca of southwestern United States having short leaves and clustered greenish white flowers |
| Our Lord's candle, Yucca whipplei | yucca of southwestern United States and Mexico with a tall spike of creamy white flowers |
| Spanish bayonet, Yucca aloifolia | A stiff yucca with a short trunk |
| Spanish bayonet, Yucca baccata | tall yucca of the southwestern United States and Mexico having a woody stem and stiff swordlike pointed leaves and a large cluster of white flowers |
| Spanish dagger, Yucca carnerosana | arborescent yucca of southwestern United States and northern Mexico with sword-shaped leaves and white flowers |
| Spanish dagger, Yucca gloriosa | yucca of southeastern United States similar to the Spanish ... / Spanish bayonets but with shorter trunk and smoother leaves |
| bear grass, Yucca glauca | yucca of west central United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers |
| bear grass, Yucca smalliana | yucca of southern United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers |
| soapweed, soap-weed, soap tree, Yucca elata | tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States |
| Broader | shrub, bush | A low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems |
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| Spanish | yuca, yucca |
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| Catalan | iuca |
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