'Yucca filamentosa' definitions:
Definition of 'Yucca filamentosa'
From: WordNet
noun
Yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages [syn: Adam's needle, Adam's needle-and-thread, spoonleaf yucca, needle palm, Yucca filamentosa]
Definition of 'Yucca filamentosa'
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]