júkka
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Icelandic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Kari'na yuca (“cassava (Manihot esculenta)”). 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.
Noun
[edit]júkka f (genitive singular júkku, nominative plural júkkur)
- yucca
- Synonym: pálmalilja
Declension
[edit]declension of júkka
Further reading
[edit]- “júkka” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)