Sentence examples for yucca from inspiring English sources
noun
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.
He grows yucca, corn, rice and beans, and keeps cattle, hens and pigs.
The Joshua Tree is a species of giant yucca, named by the Mormons for its reaching shape, which is said to have reminded them of Joshua lifting his arms to heaven.
The months spent after the Granma invasion in the Sierra Maestra, among the forests and the fog, eating boiled yucca and sweet potatoes without salt; his journey, as a wanted man, to Havana; his arrest in 1958 for going to Florida, secretly, to get dynamite to advance the revolution.
This is exemplified in the spikes of yucca and the racemes of delphinium, in which the youngest flowers are farthest away from the root.
Each of the four species is adapted to a particular species of yucca.
Cedar, mesquite, yucca, cactus, and some islands of cypress make up the vegetation of the Edwards Plateau.
Nevada's caucuses moved up the electoral calendar, meaning that presidential candidates were greatly helped by an anti-Yucca stance.
Last weekend an anti-Yucca pledge was added into the party's election platform.
This kind of approach seems to be working in Sweden and Finland, and Britain is trying something similar.This is more or less the opposite of what was done at Yucca Mountain.
Shelley Berkley, the feisty Democratic congresswoman for Las Vegas, reckons Mr Kerry's best card is Mr Bush's support for a plan to bury America's nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain, just 100 miles north of Las Vegas.
The United States hopes to have one finished at Yucca Mountain, in the Nevada desert, in a decade's time; the European countries are a decade behind that.
