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Yucca

noun

Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca having usually tall stout stems and a terminal cluster of white flowers; warmer regions of North America.

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... infants at their breasts, the men answered, "Father, you don't understand these things, and that is why they vex you. You know that women are accustomed to bear children, and that we men are not. When the women sow, the stalk of the maize bears two or three ears, the root of the yucca yields two or three basketfuls, and everything multiplies in proportion. Now why is that? Simply because the women know how to bring forth, and know how to make the seed which they sow bring forth also. Let them sow, then; we men don't know as much about ...

— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer

... only a few indifferent specimens. [1] It is the same with the yuccas; they flourish here, though one kind, again, is conspicuous by its absence— the Atkinsi (some such name, for it is long since I planted my last yucca) with drooping leaves of golden-purple. You will be surprised at the number of agaves in flower here. The reason is, that they are liable to be moved about for ornamental purposes when they want to be at rest; the plant, more sensitive and fastidious than it looks, is outraged by this forceful ...

— Alone • Norman Douglas

Words linked to "Yucca" : soapweed, Spanish dagger, Joshua tree, Spanish bayonet, Yucca whipplei, shrub, bear grass, Adam's needle-and-thread, needle palm, soap tree, Adam's needle, bush, Our Lord's candle, soap-weed