yucca
nounHow to pronounce yucca:
Definition of yucca:
- yucca (noun):
- 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.
- any of a genus (yucca) of sometimes arborescent plants of the agave family that occur in warm regions chiefly of western north america and have long sword-shaped often stiff fibrous-margined leaves on a usually woody base and bear a large panicle of white blossoms
Synonyms for yucca:
adam's needle
adam's needle-and-thread
bear grass
bush
genus yucca
joshua tree
needle palm
our lord's candle
shrub
soap tree
soapweed
spanish bayonet
spanish dagger
spoonleaf yucca
yucca aloifolia
yucca baccata
yucca brevifolia
yucca carnerosana
yucca elata
yucca filamentosa
yucca glauca
yucca gloriosa
yucca smalliana
yucca whipplei
Here are some other common 2-syllable words.
- narwhal
- moving
- Gilead
- indoor
- nicest
- Maldives
- fascia
- beleve
- hiver
- skidded
- nestle
- coolish
- phalanx
- protend
- prestige
- dissect
- digress
- crimson
- suspect
- flooded
- Arwan
- sandwiched
- commend
- behaved
- catnap
- descend
- slyness
- instinct
- frontward
- schism
- perched
- memoir
- improve
- sprouting
- backbite
- aback
- wrinkled
- werent
- brightness
- tartness
- redder
- loosen
- freshly
- worldly
- daemon
- dromons
- curvy
- vendor
- flipper
- Persian
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