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for Yucca
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Flicker \Flick"er\, n.
1. The act of wavering or of fluttering; fluctuation; sudden
and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of
the dying flame.
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2. (Zool.) The golden-winged woodpecker ({Colaptes aurutus);
-- so called from its spring note. Called also
yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and
yucca.
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The cackle of the flicker among the oaks.
--Thoureau.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Yucca \Yuc"ca\, n. (Zool.)
See Flicker, n., 2.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
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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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
yucca
n 1: any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca having
usually tall stout stems and a terminal cluster of white
flowers; warmer regions of North America
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