Yucca

See also: yucca

Translingual

Yucca elephantipes

Etymology

Variant of English yuca, from Kari'na yuca (“cassava (Manihot esculenta)”), because Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and others confused it with that plant.

Proper noun

Yucca f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Asparagaceae – the yuccas.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, monocots – clades; Asparagales – order; Asparagaceae - family; Agavoideae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Yucca sect. Yucca, Yucca sect. Chaenocarpa, Yucca sect. Clistocarpa, Yucca sect. Endlichiana, Yucca sect. Hesperoyucca, Yucca sect. Yucca - sections
• Yucca aloifolia - type species; Yucca elata - selected other species; see Yucca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia for more species.

References

• Yucca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Yucca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Yucca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Yucca at USDA Plants database

English

Proper noun

Yucca

1. Ellipsis of Yucca Mountain.
   • 1999, Frank Murkowski, Nuclear Waste Storage and Disposal Policy: Hearing Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, U.S. Senate, DIANE Publishing, →ISBN, page 55:

     Add this issue tot the myriad of other problems at Yucca Mountain: its active seismicity, including last year's revelation in Science that the earth's crust at Yucca is less stable than scientists previously had believed […]

   • 2007 04, Wendell Duffield, Yucca Mountain Dirty Bomb, iUniverse, →ISBN:

     “Maybe the mantle under Yucca is so damn hot that it behaves more like pudding or putty than solid brittle rock.” “Yeah. Ain't hindsight great,” Barney said. They sighed as Hank rolled up the earthquake maps […]

   • 2022, Harry E Gove, From Hiroshima to the Iceman, page 141:

     Furthermore the region around Yucca is extremely arid—the Nevada Desert is one of the driest places in the United States. The average precipitation at Yucca Mountain is 1.5 centimetres a year.

2. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Mohave County, Arizona, United States.