(n.) A West Indian name for two large timber trees (Podocarpus coriaceus, and P. Purdicanus) of the Yew family. The wood, which is much used, is pale brownish with darker streaks.
Example Sentences:
(1) The conditions are congenital inclusion-body encephalopathy probably caused by a paramyxovirus infection, idiopathic neuraxial oedema of a newborn calf, focal symmetrical encephalomalacia of a young calf, yacca (Xanthorrhoea spp) poisoning of adult cattle leading to spinal demyelination, and focal demyelination and neuropathy in an adult cow.
Yucca
Definition:
(n.) See Flicker, n., 2.
(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) An aqueous alcoholic extract of fresh flowers of Yucca glauca Nutt.
(2) Jaczko's decision to halt work on Yucca Mountain put him at odds with Republicans in Congress and the nuclear industry who, in the pre-Fukushima era, were hoping to build a series of new reactors, after a 30-year hiatus.
(3) A hitherto undescribed ballistosporous yeast was isolated from a dead leaf of Yucca sp.
(4) Walking through the yucca strands and mesquite branches, in the rust-and-gold shadow of the vortex site known as Cathedral Rock; listening to the sound of another traveller’s panpipes on the top of Airport Mesa; sneaking away from a tour to close my eyes and feel the scorching sun on my skin, sitting alone with a book and (mercifully strong) coffee at the Oak Creek Brewery and Grill hearing the creek murmur in the distance – all these provoke a sensation as close to mindfulness as any I’d experienced.
(5) Today, the equipment at the yucca plant is silent and rusting.
(6) At the end of a drive to Yucca, Arizona, 200 miles south-east of Vegas, we swung through the ranch gate and climbed out to a laconic “Howdy” from a cowpoke who introduced himself as Tex, the head wrangler.
(7) He is as Texan as the yucca plants growing outside his house.
(8) • Point Reyes links campsites , whale watching , hiking Joshua Tree national park Photograph: Alamy The park was named after the otherworldly trees that dot the landscape – actually an unusually tall species of yucca – but the real stars here are the rock formations: jumbled piles of outsize boulders that glitter with crystals in the southern Californian sun.
(9) The Obama administration has blocked a 22-year project to dump waste from reactors in Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
(10) Left unresolved was the government's claim that Bundy owes more than $1.1m in fees and penalties for letting some 900 cows trespass for 20 years on arid rangeland of scrub brush, mesquite, cheat grass and yucca near the rustic town of Bunkerville, about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
(11) The tensions with fellow regulators began almost immediately when Jaczko, following a White House lead, began shutting down a project to bury nuclear waste in Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
(12) Yucca saponin fed in a concentration of 63 ppm to turkey poults at 6 to 14 weeks of age did not significantly improve weight gains, feed conversion, or digestive coefficients.
(13) Public opposition is high — as successive U.S. governments have discovered whenever the burial ground at Yucca Mountain in Nevada is discussed — and the cost of construction will be huge.
(14) They were encouraged to plant yucca, which would be processed in a new drying plant.
(15) • Rua Gago Coutinho 51, +55 21 2556 0638 Bar do Adão, city-wide Bar do Adão offers huge portions of Carioca (Rio) favourites, like the escondidinho (£7), a yucca-root lined dish filled with a meat (beef, chicken, shrimp, or cod) and topped with a crispy layer of parmesan.
(16) "The administration is also stuck on a solution for nuclear waste, after shutting down plans to bury the waste in the Yucca Mountain range in Nevada.
(17) But President Obama drastically cut the partnership's funding, while also halting work on the planned Yucca Mountain geological repository.
(18) The yucca flour would then be bought up by a new animal feed plant.
(19) The structures of the new steroidal saponins (tentatively named YS-XI, -XII and -XIII) have been isolated from the caudex of Yucca gloriosa and characterized as 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(1----2)-beta-D-galactopyranosyl 5 beta- (25R)-spirostan-3 beta, 12 beta-diol, 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(1----2)- [beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(1----3)]-beta-D-glucopyranosyl 5 beta- (25R)-spirostan-3 beta, 12 beta-diol and 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(1----2)- beta-D-galactopyranosyl 5 beta-(25R)-spirostan-2 beta,3 beta,12 beta-triol, respectively.
(20) Eight new steroidal glycosides, tentatively named YS-VI, -VII, -VIII, -IX, -X, -XI, -XII and -XIII were isolated from the caudex of Yucca gloriosa along with P-1, YG-2 and YG-3 previously obtained from flowers.