yucca
Plural: yuccas
Noun
- A genus of perennial plants in the asparagus family.
- 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
- Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.
- The yuca (cassava).
Examples
- The word YUCCA, a tropical plant, perfectly spanned the triple word score for a huge gain.
Origin / Etymology
Variant of yuca, sometimes said to be from Kari'na yuca (“cassava (Manihot esculenta)”), but this latter appears to be a ghost word. 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.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 12
yucca: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordyucca: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
yucca: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 14
yucca: valid Words With Friends Word