yucca

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈjʌkə/    美 /ˈjʌkə/|/ˈjuːkə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — YUCCA: The Indian Yucca; vulgô. / The Characters are; / It hath the Appearance of an Aloe, the Leaves ending in a ſharp Point, but will grow in the Habit of a Tree; […] The Species are; / 1. Yucca; foliis Aloes. C. B. P. The common Yucca. / 2. Yucca; foliis filamentoſis. Moriſs. Yucca with Threads growing from the Leaves.[…]
  2. The yuca (cassava). obsolete,proscribed
    — Jucca, ſive Yucca Peruana. The root whereof the bread Caſua, or Cazava is made.

词形变化

yuccas plural

词汇关系

下位词
Adam's needle Joshua tree
衍生词
banana yucca chaparral yucca datil yucca foothill yucca Quixote yucca soaptree yucca yucca borer yuccaloeside yucca moth

词源

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.
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