yucca
Americannoun
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yuccas
plural
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
Yusely nodded at the yucca chips frying slowly in a pot of lukewarm oil.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024
On the other hand, Joshua trees rely solely on the yucca moth for pollination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2024
A pickup coming around the curve veered and ran into the ditch—plantains, oranges, mangoes, yucca spilling all over the road.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Classic examples include figs and fig wasps and yuccas and yucca moths.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
Like most people here, Ms Membache is a subsistence farmer cultivating plantain, yuccas, yams, rice and maize.
From BBC ● May 18, 2022
Soaptree yuccas are native to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Utah and northern Mexico, where they typically grow as small succulents in hot, dry conditions.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2020
Most striking were the yuccas, which flash in the sun like trumpets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2019
“The first year you wanted to look pretty for me, so you wore a nice dress to the fields. By the time we finished, it looked like the sackcloth the yuccas were in!”
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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