Yucca is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for YUCCA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a Mexican plant of the lily family, also YUCA
• a plant of the agave family with sword-like leaves and spikes of white bell-shaped flowers that are dependent upon the yucca moth for fertilization, native to warm regions of the US and Mexico.
• tropical plant with spikes of white leaves
• See Flicker, n., 2.
• A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.
• 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
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a tropical plant

Words related to YUCCA

yuca9 yuccas13

Words that contain YUCCA

yuccas13

How to use YUCCA in a sentence

• The yucca was in bloom, too, and added its mammoth flower to the display.
• While riding alone among his cows over miles of yucca and sage he kept in touch with the world through the poetry he recited to himself.
• On the tenth morning both parents of the child are bathed in suds of yucca, the whole body of the mother but only the head of the father.
• The pupil is then struck across each arm and across each ankle with the yucca blades.
• At any rate, he snorted and sagged back on the rope, hit a yucca point, whirled and made off.
• Enoch looked at her, drew a deep breath, then put his gun across his arm and followed Diana to the yucca thicket where quail was to be found.
• He plucked the stocking and slipper from the yucca and dropped them into his pocket.
• Unlovely, soiled, desolate of verdure, dumped down upon a flat of sand in a treeless waste, amid cactus, crabbed yucca, scorpions, horned toads, and rattlesnakes.
• But the difficulty is solved as soon as we learn that the moth lays its eggs in the fruit-buds of the Yucca, and that the larvae, when they emerge, feed on the developing seeds.
• The unwritten law of the desert would condemn whoever did this to a lariat and a yucca palm.
• The wind whispered mysteriously through the bayonets of the yucca palm above them.
• Through all these, slender sticks of yucca had been run to serve as handles while painting the tubes and also to support the tubes while the paint was drying.
• During the chanting an attendant made suds from the yucca.
• The man who would win a beautiful wife must hit the blade of a yucca plant with an arrow at forty paces.
• From each bottle she poured a little water upon the yucca root and proceeded to wash Yolkai Estsan and all her finery.
• This motley singing and hilarity continue until well toward sunrise, when the mother brings in a bowl of yucca suds and washes the girl’s hair.
• A tiny bird flitted past and perched on the dry, dead stalk of a yucca.
• It was somewhere along here that we first saw some Yucca trees.
• These with the yucca from which they made their casabe or bread, maize, yams, and other edible roots, constituted their food supply.
• They had, as Casey expected, seen his lights when he came off the summit from Yucca Pass.
• They cultivate maize, yucca, and ages, as we have already related is the practice in Hispaniola.
• There are several varieties of yucca, one of which being dearer and more agreeable, is reserved for making the bread of the caciques.
• It is most digestible, and the yucca is cultivated and harvested in the greatest abundance and with great facility.
• The cacique fed this young fish for several days with yucca bread, millet, and the roots the natives eat.
• We have sufficiently explained how maize, agoes, yucca, potatoes, and other edible roots are sown, cultivated, and used.
• Yucca, maize bread, and wine made from grains and fruits, are the same as at Comogra or amongst the other continental and insular tribes.
• On each of these days the baby and its mother have their heads washed with yucca suds.
• The two mothers pound up roots of the yucca, used as soap, and prepare two bowls of foaming suds.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. We do not cooperate with the owners of this trademark. All trademark rights are owned by their owners and are not relevant to the web site "scrabble-word.com". This site is intended for entertainment and training. We try to make a useful tool for all fans of SCRABBLE. "Scrabble Word" is the best method to improve your skills in the game.