yacca

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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish yaca, from Taíno.

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Noun[edit]

yacca (plural yaccas)

  1. Either of two large evergreens of the West Indies, Podocarpus coriaceus and Podocarpus purdicanus.

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Etymology 2[edit]

Transferred sense from Kaurna yagu (“pine gum”), referring to the resinous exudation from yacca trunks. [1]

A yacca

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Noun[edit]

yacca (plural yaccas)

  1. (Australia) Any of the various Australian perennial flowering plants of the genus Xanthorrhoea.
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References[edit]

  1. ^ Bruce Moore The Australian National Dictionary (Melbourne: OUP) 2016.

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