yucca
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of yucca
1655–65; < New Latin, apparently < Spanish; perhaps originally identical with yuca yuca
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Hospitals have stopped all but emergency surgeries and farmers have struggled getting yucca and plantains to market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
Classic examples include figs and fig wasps and yuccas and yucca moths.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
"I want to plant yucca, tomatoes, bananas, mangoes and pineapples," she enthuses.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2025
Vibrant yucca, scrub oak and sage stood alongside dried-out chaparral.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
The skirt of yucca fibers was simple to make.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
Classic examples include figs and fig wasps and yuccas and yucca moths.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
Byron Jones, horticulturalist at Tacoma’s Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium, grows a host of “unthirsty” botanical marvels in the Deserts and Baja Gardens, from sedum and cactuses to agaves and yuccas.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
They also point out that state wildlife biologists a year ago recommended against listing the species after concluding that claims in the petition about the effects of climate change on the large yuccas were premature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
Like most people here, Ms Membache is a subsistence farmer cultivating plantain, yuccas, yams, rice and maize.
From BBC ● May 18, 2022
The tall yellow rice grass and the broken gray shale ridge were undisturbed by outlines of darker objects that did not belong with the junipers and yuccas.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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