Crossword-Solution: YUCCA 5 letters, 109 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Yucca n. See Flicker, n., 2.
Yucca n. 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.

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"The Beast of ___ Flats" (1961 sci-fi bomb) 1 answer
Adam's needle, e.g. 1 answer
Adam's-needle, e.g. 1 answer
Agave family member 1 answer
Agave family plant 1 answer
Colorado's ___ House National Monument 1 answer
Desert bloomy 1 answer
Desert plant in the asparagus family 1 answer
Desert plant pollinated by moths 1 answer
Desert plant with sword-shaped leaves 1 answer
Edible agave 1 answer
Edible desert plant 1 answer
Emblem of New Mexico. 1 answer
Flower of N. M. 1 answer
Flower of N.M. 1 answer
Flower of New Mexico 1 answer
Flowering desert plant 1 answer
Gross-sounding plant? 1 answer
Joshua tree genus 1 answer
Spiky-leaved desert plant often with tall white flowers 1 answer
Joshua tree, e.g. 1 answer
Joshua tree, for example 1 answer
Joshua tree, for one 1 answer
N. M. flower 1 answer
N. M. state flower 1 answer
NEW Mexico State flower 1 answer
New Mexico emblem 1 answer
New Mexico flower 1 answer
New Mexico's floral symbol. 1 answer
New Mexico's flower 1 answer
New Mexico's official flower 1 answer
New Mexico's state flower 1 answer
Ornamental plant of the Southwest 1 answer
Partly edible agave that sounds disgusting 1 answer
Plant of the agave family 1 answer
Plant pollinated by a moth 1 answer
Plant with swordlike leaves 1 answer
Plant with tough, sword-shaped leaves 1 answer
SOTOL-like plant 1 answer
SPANISH bayonet 1 answer
Shrub with swordlike leaves 1 answer
Side dish in Peruvian restaurants 1 answer
Southwest desert plant 1 answer
Southwest plant 1 answer
Southwestern desert plant 1 answer
Southwestern plant with swordlike leaves 1 answer
Spanish dagger or Adam's needle is a variety of it 1 answer
Spanish dagger, e.g. 1 answer
Spiky desert plant 1 answer
State flower of N.M. 1 answer
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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The brakemen out on their box-cars, the miners up in their diggings, the lonely homesteaders in the sand hills of Yucca and Kit Carson Counties, begin to think of Denver, muffled in snow, full of food and drink and good cheer, and to yearn for her with that admiration which makes her, more than other American cities, an object of sentiment.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Some of these ancient gardens are still cultivated by Indians, descendants of cliff-dwellers, who raise corn, squashes, melons, potatoes, etc., to reinforce the produce of the many wild food-furnishing plants—nuts, beans, berries, yucca and cactus fruits, grass and sunflower seeds, etc.—and the flesh of animals—deer, rabbits, lizards, etc.
Steep Trails John Muir 1995
The yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age, tipped with panicles of fetid, greenish bloom.
The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin 2008
CHAPTER TWELVE CONTEMPORARY STRONG PEOPLE: CHARLES JEFFERSON; LOUIS CYR; JOHN GRUN MARX; WILLIAM LE ROY.--THE NAIL KING, THE HUMAN CLAW-HAMMER; ALEXANDER WEYER; MEXICAN BILLY WELLS; A FOOLHARDY ITALIAN; WILSON; HERMAN; SAMPSON; SANDOW; YUCCA; LA BLANCHE; LULU HURST.--THE GEORGIA MAGNET, THE ELECTRIC GIRL, ETC.; ANNIE ABBOTT; MATTIE LEE PRICE.--THE TWILIGHT OF THE FREAKS.
The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé Harry Houdini 1996
Beyond the gateway a lush level ca隳n into which you plunged as into a bath; then again the laboring trail, up and always up toward the blue California sky, out of the lilacs, and laurels, and redwood chaparral into the manzanita, the Spanish bayonet, the creamy yucca, and the fine angular shale of the upper regions.
The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1996

Quotes with YUCCA (3)

When we came out of the cookhouse, we found the boy's father, the Indian man who had been grazing the horses in the pasture, waiting for us. He wanted someone to tell his troubles to. He looked about guardedly, afraid that the Señora might overhear him.'Take a look at me' he said. I don't even know how old I am. When I was young, the Señor brought me here. He promised to pay me and give me a plot of my own. 'Look at my clothes' he said, pointing to the patches covering his bo…
Yossi Ghinsberg Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival
In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.
Timothy Noah
We as taxpayers have put in well over $12 to $15 billion of investment in a repository for high-level nuclear waste... if we're ever to recoup that investment in the future... then we're going to need some money to reopen Yucca Mountain.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 124 times in crossword archives (1964–2025).