Yucca

Quick meaning: Yucca is a noun meaning (now proscribed, obsolete) The yuca (cassava).

Meaning

(now proscribed, obsolete) The yuca (cassava).

More Meanings

1. 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.

Example Sentences

Jucca, ſive Yucca Peruana. The root whereof the bread Caſua, or Cazava is made.

On the mountains a few junipers and piñons are found, and cactuses, agave, and yuccas, low, fleshy plants with bayonets and thorns.

The strange yet appealing yucca is native to the United States, Mexico and the West Indies and is part of the Agavaceae family, many species of which have tough, sword-like leaves.

There are two kinds of the yucca, or manioc root,—the yucca dulce and the yucca amarga,—the sweet and bitter. One may be eaten raw without danger. The other, which closely resembles it, if eaten raw, would produce almost instant death, as its juice is one of the deadliest of vegetable poisons.

Word Forms

• yuccas

Synonyms for yucca

Depending on context, synonyms include oose.

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