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  • noun Plural form of yucca.

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Examples

  • The yuccas are a direct result of your influence, I didn’t even like yuccas before, not realizing they came in the pretty variegation.

    December Foliage « Fairegarden 2009

  • One twilight evening, watching the resident jackrabbit gobbling clover, I noticed one of the owls teetering on the top strand of a wire fence around the front “sharp” garden so called because it had a dozen yuccas in it.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • I studied the ground, bumping over chunks of shale and whole yuccas.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

  • I studied the ground, bumping over chunks of shale and whole yuccas.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

  • One twilight evening, watching the resident jackrabbit gobbling clover, I noticed one of the owls teetering on the top strand of a wire fence around the front “sharp” garden so called because it had a dozen yuccas in it.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • I studied the ground, bumping over chunks of shale and whole yuccas.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

  • One twilight evening, watching the resident jackrabbit gobbling clover, I noticed one of the owls teetering on the top strand of a wire fence around the front “sharp” garden so called because it had a dozen yuccas in it.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • One twilight evening, watching the resident jackrabbit gobbling clover, I noticed one of the owls teetering on the top strand of a wire fence around the front “sharp” garden so called because it had a dozen yuccas in it.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • In Tucson, Ariz., a sloping front yard was transformed into a desert rock garden filled with native cacti, agaves, and yuccas.

    Giving Up On Grass 2010

  • How is it possible that an island covered in fertile soil is full of people anxiously waiting for a few malangas, some bananas, some yuccas.

    Yoani Sanchez: Slogans Don't Make The Crops Grow 2010

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