yucca baccata

1. 1.

   tall yucca of the southwestern United States and Mexico having a woody stem and stiff swordlike pointed leaves and a large cluster of white flowers

   SynonymsSpanish bayonet

   Broaderyucca

Questions about yucca baccata

What does yucca baccata mean?

yucca baccata means "tall yucca of the southwestern United States and Mexico having a woody stem and stiff swordlike pointed leaves and a large cluster of white flowers".

What is another word for yucca baccata?

Close synonyms include Spanish bayonet. 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 yucca baccata a common word?

yucca baccata 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.