our lord's candle

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   yucca of southwestern United States and Mexico with a tall spike of creamy white flowers

   SynonymsYucca whipplei

   Broaderyucca

Questions about our lord's candle

What does our lord's candle mean?

our lord's candle means "yucca of southwestern United States and Mexico with a tall spike of creamy white flowers".

What is another word for our lord's candle?

Close synonyms include Yucca whipplei. 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 our lord's candle a common word?

our lord's candle 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.