资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Yucca \Yuc"ca\, n. [NL., from Yuca, its name in St. Domingo.]
(Bot.)
A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants
having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a
more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy
white blossoms.
Note: The species with more rigid leaves (as {Yucca
aloifolia}, {Y. Treculiana}, and {Y. baccata}) are
called {Spanish bayonet}, and one with softer leaves
({Y. filamentosa}) is called {bear grass}, and {Adam's
needle}.
{Yucca moth} (Zo["o]l.), a small silvery moth ({Pronuba
yuccasella}) whose larv[ae] feed on plants of the genus
Yucca.