How many syllables in yucca?

There are 2 syllables in the word yucca.

How to pronounce 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

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