adam's needle-and-thread

1. 1.

   yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages

   SynonymsAdam's needlespoonleaf yuccaneedle palmYucca filamentosa

   Broaderyucca

Questions about adam's needle-and-thread

What does adam's needle-and-thread mean?

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

What is another word for adam's needle-and-thread?

Close synonyms include Adam's needle, 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-and-thread a common word?

adam's needle-and-thread 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.