Yucca

See also: yucca

Translingual

Variant of English yuca, from Kari'na yuca (“cassava (Manihot esculenta)”), because Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and others confused it with that plant.^[1]^[2]

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(genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, monocots – clades; Asparagales – order; Asparagaceae – family; Agavoideae - subfamily

^ Mary Irish, Gary Irish (2000) Agaves, Yuccas, and Related Plants: a Gardener's Guide‎^[1], Portland, Or.: Timber Press, →ISBN, page 18.
^ Umberto Quattrocchi (2000) CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names‎^[2], volumes 4 (R–Z), Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 2862.

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Yucca

Ellipsis of Yucca Mountain.
- 1999, Frank Murkowski, Nuclear Waste Storage and Disposal Policy: Hearing Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, U.S. Senate, DIANE Publishing, →ISBN, page 55:
  Add this issue tot the myriad of other problems at Yucca Mountain: its active seismicity, including last year's revelation in Science that the earth's crust at Yucca is less stable than scientists previously had believed […]
- 2007 04, Wendell Duffield, Yucca Mountain Dirty Bomb, iUniverse, →ISBN:
  “Maybe the mantle under Yucca is so damn hot that it behaves more like pudding or putty than solid brittle rock.” “Yeah. Ain't hindsight great,” Barney said. They sighed as Hank rolled up the earthquake maps […]
- 2022, Harry E Gove, From Hiroshima to the Iceman, page 141:
  Furthermore the region around Yucca is extremely arid—the Nevada Desert is one of the driest places in the United States. The average precipitation at Yucca Mountain is 1.5 centimetres a year.
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Mohave County, Arizona, United States.