Use: The yucca is an adaptable desert-dweller that makes an attractive feature plant in many types of gardens. From Wordnik.com. [Triangle palm, yucca and thunbergia: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico] Reference
The root of the cassava plant — sometimes called yucca or manioc — is a food staple in much of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American] Reference
In fact, several plants rely on moths as their primary pollinators, such as yucca, which relies on, surprise, surprise, the yucca moth. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
Desert bighorns live in dry, rugged, mountainous terrain, and eat seasonally available plants such as yucca, prickly pear and wild onions. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
Or the yucca is the state flower. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2004] Reference
Malone felt he couldn't stand the sight of another yucca. From Wordnik.com. [That Sweet Little Old Lady] Reference
Cassava (manioc, yucca) A starchy root grown in the tropics. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 33] Reference
Black paint slowly yielded to oatmeal soap and a yucca brush. From Wordnik.com. [Stallion Gate]
The stunted trees were lower than the giant bushes and yucca. From Wordnik.com. [Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas] Reference
Surrounded by a field of yucca, the rise did have the best view. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
He headed them off again by hiding in the stalks of a large yucca. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest] Reference
In Mozambique women chew the yucca plant to produce a similar product. From Wordnik.com. [1 Upgrading Traditional Biotechnological Processes] Reference
I sit down next to an old woman weaving a flat plate from yucca leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Acts]
There are many kinds of yucca in the more elevated portions of the desert. From Wordnik.com. [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference
By stalking up on a herd of 113 elk out in the cactus and yucca, that's how. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Mrs. Countryman: Will yucca filamentosa ever blossom in a garden in St. Paul?. From Wordnik.com. [Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916] Reference
Joe could see woolly patches of buffalo grass, rabbit brush and yucca spears. From Wordnik.com. [Stallion Gate]
At low elevations in the south, several kinds of cactus and yucca are common. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Plateau Semidesert Province (Bailey)] Reference
No. 31562, which was obtained in a yucca and acacia association, had little fat. From Wordnik.com. [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference
The yucca or bear-grass is in perfection; its massive flower scapes are very telling. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881] Reference
When an ember rolled free, she swept it back into the fire with a brush of yucca stalks. From Wordnik.com. [Stallion Gate]
He made a torch of the inner shreds of cedar bark and wrapped it with yucca thread and lighted it. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest] Reference
The Mohave yucca is a remarkable plant, which resembles in its nature both the cactus and the palm. From Wordnik.com. [The California Birthday Book] Reference
Ray took a long, swiveled view of a far-off, flat horizon of buffalo grass, gray sage, yucca spears. From Wordnik.com. [Stallion Gate]
As he turned to race for the river he glimpsed a short brown man rising from behind a large yucca plant. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
And then when I go to Miami I need toskonas (ph) and (speaking foreign language) and yucca instead of tortillas. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2007] Reference
And when by walking only upon their hinder feet they were bruised by stone and sand, they plaited sandals of yucca fibre. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest] Reference
And then when I got to Miami I need to know tostones (ph) and (speaking foreign language) and yucca instead of tortillas. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2007] Reference
It was cruel to tie her to the yucca and leave her to starve to death, but I 'most wish she'd been dead when Dad found her. From Wordnik.com. [Tabitha at Ivy Hall] Reference
The sisal hemp, pineapple, yucca, and a number of fiber plants growing in the southern part of the United States are worthy of note. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
Mine included pumpkin pie and flan, mashed potatoes and black beans and rice, dressing, good old Southern-style dressing, and yucca. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2009] Reference
Trees such as palms and yucca do not grow in this way, but their wood is not important enough in this country to warrant a description. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
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