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Look up: Yucca

  1. Yucca
    This group consists of about 40 perennials and evergreen shrubs and trees native to semi-arid regions of North America, Central America, and Mexico. These plants range in height from 28 inches to 40 feet depending upon the variety. Yuccas make great houseplants when young. Yuccas produce rosette...
    Found on http://www.botany.com/yucca.html

  2. Yucca
    Silk Grass, a plant used for food, sandals, rope, nets, soap, dye, point brushes, tread to sew robes.
    Found on http://users.michweb.net/~orendon/americ

  3. yucca
    [n] - any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca having usually tall stout stems and a terminal cluster of white flowers
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Yucca
    Yuc'ca noun (Zoology) See Flicker , noun , 2.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/Y/8

  5. Yucca
    Yuc'ca noun [ New Latin , from Yuca , its name in St. Domingo.] (Botany) 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...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/Y/8

  6. yucca
    <zoology> See Flicker. ... <botany> 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. ... The species with more rigid leaves (as Yucca a...
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  7. yucca
    noun any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca having usually tall stout stems and a terminal cluster of white flowers; warmer regions of North America
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  8. Yucca
    • (n.) See Flicker, n., 2. • (n.) 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.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  9. yucca
    (genus Yucca), any of about 40 species of succulent plants of the lily family Agavaceae, native to southern North America. Most species of yucca are ... [5 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/y/13

  10. yucca
    yucca (yŭk'u) , any plant of the genus Yucca, stiff-leaved stemless or treelike succulents of the family Liliaceae (lily family), native chiefly to the tablelands of Mexico and the American Southwest but found also in the E United States and the West Indies. Yuccas in flower produce a larg...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08531

  11. Yucca
    The yucca (Adam's Needle) is a genus of American plants of the family Liliaceae. They bear many-flowered panicles of large showy flowers, and usually thick lanceolate leaves, clustered at the summit of the woody caudex.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  12. yucca
    Any of a group of plants belonging to the lily family, with over 40 species found in Latin America and the southwestern USA. The leaves are stiff and sword-shaped and the flowers, which grow on upright central spikes, are white and bell-shaped. (Genus Yucca, family Liliaceae.) Yuccas grow in dry soils where nitrate salts,...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  13. Yucca
    `Yucca` is a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily lastauthoramp=yes -->--> Its 40-50 species are notable for their Rosette (botany)|rosettes of evergreen, tough, sword-shaped leaves and large terminal panicles of white or whitish flowers. They are native t...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca



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