SPANISH BAYONET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Spanish bayonet mean? 

• SPANISH BAYONET (noun)
  The noun SPANISH BAYONET has 2 senses:

1. tall yucca of the southwestern United States and Mexico having a woody stem and stiff swordlike pointed leaves and a large cluster of white flowers

2. a stiff yucca with a short trunk; found in the southern United States and tropical America; has rigid spine-tipped leaves and clusters of white flowers

  Familiarity information: SPANISH BAYONET used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPANISH BAYONET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tall yucca of the southwestern United States and Mexico having a woody stem and stiff swordlike pointed leaves and a large cluster of white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Spanish bayonet; Yucca baccata

Hypernyms ("Spanish bayonet" is a kind of...):

yucca (any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca having usually tall stout stems and a terminal cluster of white flowers; warmer regions of North America)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A stiff yucca with a short trunk; found in the southern United States and tropical America; has rigid spine-tipped leaves and clusters of white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Spanish bayonet; Yucca aloifolia

Hypernyms ("Spanish bayonet" is a kind of...):

yucca (any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca having usually tall stout stems and a terminal cluster of white flowers; warmer regions of North America)