yucca

Significat (Anglès)

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

Conceptes

iuca

Sinònims

cassava

soapweed

Traduccions

yucca

yuca

yucca

Yucca

avize ağacı

iucca

Yucca

Yucca glauca

yucca

Manihot utilissima

Maniok

Yucca

Yucca spp.

yucca

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈjʌkə/

Etimologia (Anglès)

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.