Yucatecan (yokatekan)

[Sp. Yucateco -an.] Pertaining or belonging to Yucatan, a region in southeastern Mexico. A fair sample of Yucatecan agriculture. 7026 Mexico; one, Y. an gust i folia, extends from New Mexico to the Dakotas; three are Californian; three are well known plants of the Southern States, Y. fila mentos a, Y. aloifolia, Y. gloriosa (including Y. recurvifolia ), all decorative plants, mostly stemle , thriving in poor soil, even in drifting sand of the coast: their flowers Yucca gloriosa. Yule winged woodpecker, of eastern North America, Colaptes auratus . See cut under flicker2 . [Lo cal, U. S.] yuft, n. Same as juft for juchten . yug, yuga (yug, yöga), n. [Hind. yug, yuga , an age, yuj , join: see yokel .] One are white, tinged some of the ages into which the Hindus divide the times with green, yellow, or duration or existence of the world. purple; they furnish a yuh, n. See yu. harsh, brittle, but very IMG:content-2721.png:[graphic] strong fiber, called dagger. Yuhina, n. [NL. (Hodgson, 1836), from a na fiber, used for packing and tive name.] A genus of timeliine birds, also as a rude cordage. From their sharp-pointed leaves with threads hanging from their edges, Y. fila mentos a and Y. aloifolia are known as Adam's needle and thread and as Eve's thread; the former is also called silk - gra (which see), and sometimes bear - gra , its young pulpy stems being eaten by bears. Y. aloi folia is also known in the Southern States and in the West Indies as Spanish dag ger and dagger - plant. Y. IMG:content-2722.png:[graphic] gloriosa is the dwarf palmetto, or mound-lily. The preceding and several others are favorites in cultivation, chiefly under the name yucca; 8 species cultivated near Nice now begin to form a characteristic feature of some parts of the Mediterranean coast. Some species yield an edible fruit, as Y. baccata, the Spanish bayonet, or Mexican banana, a native of Mexico, extending into western Texas, New Mexi co, and southern parts of Colorado and California; a strong coarse fiber, made into rope by the Mexicans, is procured from the leaves by macerating them in water. The name Spanish bayonet is also applied to other species, especially to Y. constrict a ( Y. elata ), which occurs in Mexico and the United States from western Texas to Utah, grows from 9 to 15 feet high, and produces a light-brown or yellowish wood; and to Y. Treculeana (including Y. canaliculata ), a long-leafed species of Texas and Mexico, sometimes 25 feet high and feat thick, producing bite riant sweetish fruit which is cooked and eaten by the Mexicans. It its branches all near the top, produces great numbers of showy white flowers of a porcelain luster, followed by an edible berry. Y. brevifolia, known as Joshua - tree, native of Arizona and southern parts of Utah, Nevada, and California, a tree sometimes 40 feet high and about 3 feet in diameter, forms in the Mohave desert a straggling open forest; its light soft wood is sometimes made into paper-pulp. Y. Whipplei of southern California is much admired for its beauty in cultivation. Y. Yucatana of Central America is branched from the base. yucca-borer (yuk'a-bōr"ėr), n. 1. A large North American castnioid moth, Mega thymus yuccæ, whose larva bores into the roots of plants of the genus Yucca. -2. A Californian weevil, Yucca bor us frontal is.