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yucca

  • noun
  • yuc·ca
  • /ˈjʌkə/

Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.

Other meanings

  1. The yuca (cassava).

A kind of

  • shrub

Kinds of yucca

  • soap-weed
  • needle palm
  • bear grass

Related words

  • banana yucca
  • datil yucca
  • soaptree yucca
  • yucca borer
  • yucca moth
  • yuccaloeside
  • chaparral yucca
  • foothill yucca
  • Quixote yucca

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “yucca” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.