yucca
IPA: jˈʌkʌ
noun
- 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.
- (now proscribed, obsolete) The yuca (cassava).
- An unincorporated community in Mohave County, Arizona, United States.
- Ellipsis of Yucca Mountain.
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Examples of "yucca" in Sentences
- Plantain and yucca are main crops.
- So, yucca was used as a replacement.
- Yucca tree roots have saponin glycosides.
- I suspect it was a different yucca species.
- Interrelationships of yuccas and yucca moths.
- I'd like to say that Yucca Valley is boring as hell.
- Cook until the potato, yucca and arracacha are tender.
- In 1987 Congress amended the act to specify Yucca as the site.
- This issue is not affected by Yucca mountain or the wisdom of it.
- Evolution of pollination and mutualism in the yucca moth lineage.