'bear grass' definitions:
Definition of 'bear grass'
(from WordNet)
noun
Yucca of southern United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers [syn: bear grass, Yucca smalliana]
noun
Yucca of west central United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers [syn: bear grass, Yucca glauca]
noun
Stemless plant with tufts of grasslike leaves and erect panicle of minute creamy white flowers; southwestern United States and Mexico [syn: bear grass, Nolina microcarpa]
noun
Plant of western North America having woody rhizomes and tufts of stiff grasslike basal leaves and spikes of creamy white flowers [syn: squaw grass, bear grass, Xerophyllum tenax]
Definition of 'bear grass'
From: GCIDE
- Yucca \Yuc"ca\, n. [NL., from Yuca, its name in St. Domingo.] (Bot.) A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The species with more rigid leaves (as {Yucca aloifolia}, Yucca Treculiana, and Yucca baccata) are called Spanish bayonet, and one with softer leaves (Yucca filamentosa) is called bear grass, and Adam's needle. [1913 Webster]
- Yucca moth (Zool.), a small silvery moth ({Pronuba yuccasella}) whose larvae feed on plants of the genus Yucca. [1913 Webster]