adam's needle

1. 1.

   yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages

   SynonymsAdam's needle-and-threadspoonleaf yuccaneedle palmYucca filamentosa

   Broaderyucca

Questions about adam's needle

What does adam's needle mean?

adam's needle means "yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages".

What is another word for adam's needle?

Close synonyms include Adam's needle-and-thread, spoonleaf yucca, needle palm, Yucca filamentosa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adam's needle a common word?

adam's needle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.