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Yucca vs Yacca - What's the difference?

yucca | yacca |

As nouns the difference between yucca and yacca

is that yucca is 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 while yacca is either of two large evergreens of the West Indies, species: Podocarpus coriaceus and species: Podocarpus purdicanus.

yucca

English

(wikipedia yucca) (wikispecies)

Noun

(en 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.

    • Usage notes

    Do not confuse this plant with yuca .

    References

    yacca

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) yaca, from (etyl). (wikipedia yacca)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Either of two large evergreens of the West Indies, (taxlink) and (taxlink).

    • See also

    * (Podocarpus)

    Etymology 2

    From a native Australian name.

    Alternative forms

    * yacka, yakka

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of the various Australian perennial flowering plants of the genus Xanthorrhoea
    • Synonyms
    * grasstree, grass tree * blackboy

    External links

    * (Xanthorrhoea) * (Xanthorrhoea)