yucca

FREQ #49539

n. 丝兰 [医] 丝兰属

发音

UK /ˈjʌkə/
其它
US /ˈjʌkə/
US /ˈjuːkə/

词形变化

yuccas 复数 yuccas

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.

    丝兰

  2. 2.

    The yuca (cassava).

    废旧

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

bush shrub

下位词 9

beargrass Spanish bayonet Spanish dagger Adam's needle Joshua tree needle palm Our Lord's candle soaptree soapweed

相关短语

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词源

Variant of yuca, sometimes said to be from Kari'na yuca (“cassava (Manihot esculenta)”), but this latter appears to be a ghost word. The word was applied to plants of the genus Yucca (now the main sense), because Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and others confused them with the cassava.

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