Translingual

Yucca elephantipes

Etymology

Named after the Caribbean name for cassava meaning Manihot esculenta by botanist Carl von Linnaeus (1707-1778).^[1][2]

Proper noun

Yucca f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Asparagaceae – the yuccas.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, monocots - clades; Asparagales - order; Asparagaceae - family; Agavoideae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Yucca sect. Yucca, Yucca sect. Chaenocarpa, Yucca sect. Clistocarpa, Yucca sect. Endlichiana, Yucca sect. Hesperoyucca, Yucca sect. Yucca - sections
• Yucca aloifolia - type species; see Yucca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia for more species.

References

1. ↑ Erhardt, Walter & Götz, Erich & Bödeker, Nils & Seybold, Siegmund, Zander. Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. Dictionary of plant names. Dictionnaire des noms de plantes, Ulmer, 2000.
2. ↑ Hyam, Roger & Pankhurst, Richard, Plants and their Names. A Concise Dictionary, Oxford University Press, US, 1995.

English

Proper noun

Yucca

1. The Yucca mountain.

English

A flowering Adam’s needle or common yucca (Yucca filamentosa) near Kerikeri, New Zealand

Noun

yucca ‎(plural yuccas)

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

Usage notes

While yucca was formerly also used on occasion to refer to the yuca (cassava), this usage is now regarded as erroneous.

Synonyms

• oose (US)

Translations

References

1. ↑ Mary Irish; Gary Irish (2000) Agaves, Yuccas, and Related Plants: a Gardener's Guide, Portland, Or.: Timber Press, ISBN 978-0-88192-442-8, page 18.
2. ↑ Umberto Quattrocchi (2000) CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, volume 4 (R–Z), Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, ISBN 978-0-8493-2678-3, page 2862.