YUCCA
\jˈuːkə], \jˈuːkə], \j_ˈuː_k_ə]\
Definitions of YUCCA
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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See Flicker, n., 2.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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See Flicker, n., 2.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A genus (and common name) in the AGAVACEAE family. It is known for SAPONINS in the root that are used in SOAPS.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A genus of plants of the order Libiaceoe, growing in Mexico and the Southwestern United States; several of the species are called soaproot, their roots containing much mucilage and saponaceous matter; employed occasionally as a diuretic.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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A large garden plant of the lily family, familiarly called Adam's needle, native to sub-tropical America.
By Daniel Lyons
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A genus of plants of the lily order, natives of sub-tropical America, one of them, the yucca gloriosa, being now conspicuous in English gardens with its evergreen, sword-shaped leaves rising in a tuft from the stem, and its white-panicled flowers.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
