Yucca whipplei
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~ yucca of southwestern United States and Mexico with a tall spike of creamy white flowers
Yucca glauca
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~ yucca of west central United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers
Yucca aloifolia
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~ a stiff yucca with a short trunk; found in the southern United States and tropical America; has rigid spine-tipped leaves and clusters of white flowers
Yucca baccata
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~ tall yucca of the southwestern United States and Mexico having a woody stem and stiff swordlike pointed leaves and a large cluster of white flowers
Yucca elata
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~ tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States
Yucca smalliana
— Noun
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~ yucca of southern United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers
yucca
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~ 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
Yucca brevifolia
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~ a large branched arborescent yucca of southwestern United States having short leaves and clustered greenish white flowers
Yucca gloriosa
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~ yucca of southeastern United States similar to the Spanish bayonets but with shorter trunk and smoother leaves
Yue
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~ the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China
Yue dialect
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~ the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China
yugoslav
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~ a native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
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~ a former country of southeastern Europe bordering the Adriatic Sea; formed in 1918 and named Yugoslavia in 1929; controlled by Marshal Tito as a communist state until his death in 1980; "Tito's Yugoslavia included Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro"
yugoslavia
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~ a mountainous republic in southeastern Europe bordering on the Adriatic Sea; formed from two of the six republics that made up Yugoslavia until 1992; Serbia and Montenegro were known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 2003 when they adopted the name of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro
Yugoslavian dinar
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~ the basic unit of money in Yugoslavia
yugoslavian
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~ a native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia
yukawa
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~ Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981)
Yukon
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~ a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s
yukon
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~ a North American river that flows westward from the Yukon Territory through central Alaska to the Bering Sea