yucca

Etymology
Variant of, sometimes said to be from , but this latter appears to be a ghost word. The word was applied to plants of the genus (now the main sense), because  (1707–1778) and others confused them with the cassava.

Noun

 * 1) Any of several evergreen plants of the genus, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.
 * 2)  The yuca (cassava).
 * 1)  The yuca (cassava).
 * 1)  The yuca (cassava).
 * 1)  The yuca (cassava).
 * 1)  The yuca (cassava).
 * 1)  The yuca (cassava).
 * 1)  The yuca (cassava).

Usage notes
While yucca was formerly also used on occasion to refer to the yuca (cassava), this usage is now regarded as erroneous.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: юка
 * Catalan: iuca
 * Chamicuro: kinili
 * Cherokee: ᏎᎷᏉᏯ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 絲蘭屬
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * German:, Yuccapalme, Palmlilie
 * Icelandic: pálmalilja, júkka
 * Ido:
 * Navajo: tsáʼásziʼ
 * Panamint: tattsumpi
 * Polish: jukka, juka
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: juka
 * Spanish:
 * Taos: phùolénemą

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * , evergreen of the genus Yucca

Noun

 * 1)   (Yucca)

Etymology
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