yucca smalliana

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   yucca of southern United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers

   Synonymsbear grass

   Broaderyucca

Questions about yucca smalliana

What does yucca smalliana mean?

yucca smalliana means "yucca of southern United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers".

What is another word for yucca smalliana?

Close synonyms include bear grass. 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 smalliana a common word?

yucca smalliana 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.