yucca brevifolia

1. 1.

   a large branched arborescent yucca of southwestern United States having short leaves and clustered greenish white flowers

   SynonymsJoshua tree

   Broaderyucca

Questions about yucca brevifolia

What does yucca brevifolia mean?

yucca brevifolia means "a large branched arborescent yucca of southwestern United States having short leaves and clustered greenish white flowers".

What is another word for yucca brevifolia?

Close synonyms include Joshua tree. 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 brevifolia a common word?

yucca brevifolia 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.