English-Thai Dictionary

yucca

N พืช พวก  Yucca มีด อก สี ขาว  เป็น ดอกไม้ ประจำ รัฐ นิวเม็กซิโก ของ อเมริกา 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

YUCCA

YUCCA Yuc "ca, n. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: See Flicker, n., 2.

 

YUCCA

Yuc "ca, n. Etym: [NL. , from Yuca, its name in St. Domingo. ] (Bot. )

 

Defn: 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.

 

Note: The species with more rigid leaves (as Yucca aloifolia, Y. Treculiana, and Y. baccata ) are called Spanish bayonet, and one with softer leaves (Y. filamentosa ) is called bear grass, and Adam's needle. Yucca moth (Zoöl.), a small silvery moth (Pronuba yuccasella )whose larvæ feed on plants of the genus Yucca.

 

YUCCA BORER

YUCCA BORER Yuc "ca bor `er. (a ) A California boring weevil (Yuccaborus frontalis ). (b ) A large mothlike butterfly (Megathymus yuccæ ) of the family Megatimidæ, whose larva bores in yucca roots.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

yucca

yuc ca |ˈyəkə ˈjəkə | ▶noun a plant of the agave family with stiff swordlike leaves and spikes of white bell-shaped flowers that are dependent upon the yucca moth for fertilization, found esp. in warm regions of North America and Mexico. [Genus Yucca, family Agavaceae: many species, including Spanish bayonet and Adam's needle. ] ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (denoting cassava ): from Carib.

 

yucca moth

yuc ca moth ▶noun a small white American moth that lays its eggs in the ovary of a yucca plant. While doing so it deposits a ball of pollen on the stigma, thereby fertilizing the seeds on which the larvae feed. [Genus Tegeticula, family Incurvariidae: several species, in particular T. yuccasella. ]

 

Oxford Dictionary

yucca

yucca |ˈjʌkə | ▶noun a plant of the agave family with sword-like leaves and spikes of white bell-shaped flowers that are dependent upon the yucca moth for fertilization, native to warm regions of the US and Mexico. Also called Adam's needle. ●Genus Yucca, family Agavaceae: many species, including the Spanish bayonet. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (denoting cassava ): from Carib.

 

yucca moth

yucca moth ▶noun a small white American moth which lays its eggs in the ovary of a yucca plant. While doing so it deposits a ball of pollen on the stigma, thereby fertilizing the seeds on which the larvae feed. ●Genus Tegeticula, family Incurvariidae: several species, in particular T. yuccasella.

 

Duden Dictionary

Yucca

Yuc ca Substantiv, feminin , die |Y u cca |die Yucca; Genitiv: der Yucca, Plural: die Yuccas spanisch yuca, wahrscheinlich aus einer zentralamerikanischen Indianersprache Palmlilie

 

Yuccapalme

Yuc ca pal me Substantiv, feminin , die |Y u ccapalme |Yucca

 

French Dictionary

yucca

yucca n. m. nom masculin Plante ornementale ressemblant à l ’aloès. : Des yuccas géants. Prononciation Le u se prononce ou, [juka ]

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

yucca

yuc ca (!/jʌ́kə /) 名詞 C 〘植 〙イトラン, ユッカ 〘ユリ科の常緑低木; New Mexico州の州花 〙.