different between yucca vs yacca

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)

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.
2. (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)

1. yucca, evergreen of the genus Yucca

Derived terms

• yuccaplant
• yuccavlinder

French

Noun

yucca m (plural yuccas)

1. yucca

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish yaca, from Taíno.

Noun

yacca (plural yaccas)

1. Either of two large evergreens of the West Indies, Podocarpus coriaceus and Podocarpus purdicanus.

Further reading

• Podocarpus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From a native Australian name.

Alternative forms

• yacka, yakka

Noun

yacca (plural yaccas)

1. Any of the various Australian perennial flowering plants of the genus Xanthorrhoea

Synonyms

• grasstree, grass tree
• blackboy

Further reading

• Xanthorrhoea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Xanthorrhoea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies