4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Yucca \Yuc"ca\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
See {Flicker}, n., 2.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Yucca \Yuc"ca\, n. [NL., from Yuca, its name in St Domingo.]
(Bot.)
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.
Note: The species with more rigid leaves (as {Yucca
aloifolia}, {Y. Treculiana}, and {Y. baccata}) are
called {Spanish bayonet}, and one with softer leaves
({Y. filamentosa}) is called {bear grass}, and {Adam's
needle}.
{Yucca moth} (Zo["o]l.), a small silvery moth ({Pronuba
yuccasella}) whose larv[ae] feed on plants of the genus
Yucca.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flicker \Flick"er\, n.
1. The act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden
and brief increase of brightness; as the last flicker of
the dying flame.
2. (Zo["o]l.) The golden-winged woodpecker ({Colaptes
aurutus}); -- so called from its spring note. Called also
{yellow-hammer}, {high-holder}, {pigeon woodpecker}, and
{yucca}.
The cackle of the flicker among the oaks.
--Thoureau.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
yucca
n : 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
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