yucca

== English == === Etymology === Variant of yuca, sometimes said to be from Kari'na yuca (“cassava (Manihot esculenta)”), but this latter appears to be a ghost word. The word was applied to plants of the genus Yucca (now the main sense), because Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and others confused them with the cassava. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈjʌkə/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈjʌkə/, /ˈjuːkə/ Rhymes: -ʌkə Hyphenation: yuc‧ca === Noun === yucca (plural yuccas) 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. Synonym: (US) oose (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. ==== Hyponyms ==== Adam's needle Joshua tree ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === Yucca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Yucca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Yucca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish yuca. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈju.kaː/ Hyphenation: yuc‧ca === Noun === yucca f (plural yucca's, no diminutive) yucca, evergreen of the genus Yucca ==== Derived terms ==== yuccaplant yuccavlinder == French == === Noun === yucca m (plural yuccas) (botany) yucca (Yucca) Hyponyms: arbre de Josué, yucca bleu du Mexique, yucca filamenteux, yucca géant, yucca superbe ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “yucca” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35). “yucca”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “yucca”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette “yucca” in Dictionnaire Le Robert. “yucca”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from English yucca or French yucca. === Noun === yucca f (uncountable) yucca ==== Declension ==== This noun needs an inflection-table template. Please edit the entry and supply |def= and |pl= parameters to the {{ro-noun-f}} template.