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  Adam \Ad"am\, n.
     1. The name given in the Bible to the first man, the
        progenitor of the human race.
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     2. (As a symbol) "Original sin;" human frailty.
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              And whipped the offending Adam out of him. --Shak.
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     Adam's ale, water. [Coll.]
  
     Adam's apple.
  
     1. (Bot.)
        (a) A species of banana ({Musa paradisiaca). It attains a
            height of twenty feet or more. --Paxton.
        (b) A species of lime ({Citris limetta).
  
     2. The projection formed by the thyroid cartilage in the
        neck. It is particularly prominent in males, and is so
        called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden
        fruit (an apple) sticking in the throat of our first
        parent.
  
     Adam's+flannel+(Bot.),+the+mullein+({Verbascum+thapsus">Adam's flannel (Bot.), the mullein ({Verbascum thapsus).
        
  
     Adam's+needle+(Bot.),+the+popular+name+of+a+genus+({Yucca">Adam's needle (Bot.), the popular name of a genus ({Yucca)
        of liliaceous plants.
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  Yucca \Yuc"ca\, n. [NL., from Yuca, its name in St. Domingo.]
     (Bot.)
     A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants
     having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a
     more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy
     white blossoms.
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     Note: The species with more rigid leaves (as Yucca
           aloifolia, Yucca Treculiana, and Yucca baccata)
           are called Spanish bayonet, and one with softer
           leaves ({Yucca filamentosa) is called bear grass,
           and Adam's needle.
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     Yucca moth (Zool.), a small silvery moth ({Pronuba
        yuccasella) whose larvae feed on plants of the genus
        Yucca.
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