Etymology

yucca

yuc·ca
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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Kari'na yuca
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The story

  1. Kari'na · derived fromyuca“cassava (Manihot esculenta)”
  2. English todayyucca

Variant of yuca, sometimes said to be from Kari'na yuca (“cassava (Manihot esculenta)”), but this latter appears to be a ghost word. The word was applied to plants of the genus Yucca (now the main sense), because Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and others confused them with the cassava.

Words from the same roots

Kari'nayuca all →

yuca

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