The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Classic examples include figs and fig wasps and yuccas and yucca moths.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
Bohl and her husband removed the lawn and laid 2 inches of river rock approximately 3/4 to 1-inch wide, planting with agaves, manzanitas and yuccas.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
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
“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
