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Adam's Needle

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Noun

1. adam's needle, adam's needle-and-thread, needle palm, spoonleaf yucca, yucca filamentosa

yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Adam's Needle

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noun
a North American liliaceous plant, Yucca filamentosa, that has a tall woody stem, stiff pointed leaves, and large clusters of white flowers arranged in spikes. It is cultivated as an ornamental plant
See also Spanish bayonet

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Adam's Needle

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any of several species (esp. Yucca filamentosa) of the yucca plant

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Adam's Needle

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n.
Any of several closely related stemless or nearly stemless plants of the genus Yucca, especially Y. filamentosa and Y. flaccida of the southeast United States, having long thin leaves and clusters of fragrant white or off-white flowers.

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