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yucca
English
Etymology
Variant of yuca, from Galibi Carib yuca (“cassava (Manihot esculenta)”). 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.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?j?k?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?j?k?/, /?ju?k?/
- Rhymes: -?k?
- Hyphenation: yuc?ca
Noun
yucca (plural yuccas)
- 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.
- (now proscribed, obsolete) The yuca (cassava).
Usage notes
While yucca was formerly also used on occasion to refer to the yuca (cassava), this usage is now regarded as erroneous.
Synonyms
- oose (US)
Hyponyms
- Adam's needle
- Joshua tree
Derived terms
- yucca borer
- yucca moth
- yuccaloeside
Translations
References
- Yucca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Yucca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Yucca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish yucca.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ju.ka?/
- Hyphenation: yuc?ca
Noun
yucca f (plural yucca's)
- yucca, evergreen of the genus Yucca
Derived terms
- yuccaplant
- yuccavlinder
French
Noun
yucca m (plural yuccas)
- yucca
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oose
English
Etymology 1
From Scots oose, an alternative form of oos, the plural form of oo (“wool”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /u?s/, /u?z/
- (Scotland, General American) IPA(key): /uz/, /us/
Noun
oose (uncountable)
- (Scotland) Fluff, particularly from a textile source such as cotton or wool.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, London: Hamish Hamilton, ISBN 978-0-241-14241-7; 1st US edition, Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2008, ISBN 978-0-15-101348-7; page 100:
- But I found how I could read in the bedroom and not lie on the bed. It was a wee place down between my bed and the wall where the door was. The bed was pressed against the wall but ye could just squash down and under. My da kept all suitcases under my bed but I shifted them the gether and it was easy to squash in. But when I came out it was all fluff and oose stuff down my pyjamas. My maw was shouting. Oh Kieron it is filfy it is just filfy.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, London: Hamish Hamilton, ISBN 978-0-241-14241-7; 1st US edition, Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2008, ISBN 978-0-15-101348-7; page 100:
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
oose
- (US) Synonym of yucca.
Etymology 3
Verb
oose (third-person singular simple present ooses, present participle oosing, simple past and past participle oosed)
- Archaic form of ooze.
Related terms
- oosy
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /us/, /uz/
Noun
oose
- Alternative form of oos
- fluff
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