yucca

Meaning

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).

Synonyms

cassava

soapweed

Translations

yucca

yuca

yucca

Yucca

avize ağacı

iucca

Yucca

Yucca glauca

yucca

Manihot esculenta

Manihot utilissima

iuca

Yucca

Yucca spp.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈjʌkə/

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.