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],
[
"leaves",
"leaf"
],
[
"woody",
"woody"
],
[
"stem",
"stem"
],
[
"panicle",
"panicle"
],
[
"showy",
"showy"
],
[
"blossom",
"blossom"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"US"
],
"word": "oose"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English proscribed terms",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "[1677, Thomas Holyoke [i.e., Thomas Holyoake], “Jucca”, in A Large Dictionary: In Three Parts: […], London: […] W[illiam] Rawlins, for G[eorge] Sawbridge, W[illiam] Place, T[homas] Basset, T[homas] Dring, J[ohn] Leigh, and J[ohn] Place, →OCLC:",
"text": "Jucca, ſive Yucca Peruana. The root whereof the bread Caſua, or Cazava is made.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1824, Francis Hall, Colombia: Its Present State, in Respect of Climate, Soil, Productions, Population, Government, Commerce, Revenue, Manufactures, Arts, Literature, Manners, Education, and Inducements to Emigration: […], London: […] Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, →OCLC, page 69:",
"text": "[A] second kind of bread is made of the root, called Yucca, which is bruised, and the juice, which is poisonous, expressed; it is then spread into broad thin cakes, and dried for use. In this shape it is called cassava, and though much esteemed by the natives, to a European palate (except perhaps a Scotch one) seems harsh, insipid, and little nutritious.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1866, [Thomas] Mayne Reid, “The Cinchona Trees”, in The Forest Exiles; or, The Perils of a Peruvian Family Amid the Wilds of the Amazon, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 162:",
"text": "There are two kinds of the yucca, or manioc root,—the yucca dulce and the yucca amarga,—the sweet and bitter. One may be eaten raw without danger. The other, which closely resembles it, if eaten raw, would produce almost instant death, as its juice is one of the deadliest of vegetable poisons.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2002, José de Acosta, Walter D. Mignolo, “Of Yucca and Cassava, and Potatoes and Chuño and Rice”, in Frances López-Morillas, transl., edited by Jane E. Mangan, Natural and Moral History of the Indies (Chronicles of the New World Order), Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →ISBN, book IV, page 200:",
"text": "In some parts of the Indies they use a kind of bread called cassava, which is made from a certain root called yucca. The yucca root is large and thick. It is cut into small pieces and grated and squeezed in a sort of press, and what is left resembles a thin cake that is very long and broad, almost like a shield. Dried, this is the bread that they eat; it has no taste and is perfectly insipid but is wholesome and nourishing.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Maria Fiallos, “The Northeast Corridor”, in Adventure Guide: Honduras & the Bay Islands (Hunter Travel Guides), Edison, N.J.: Hunter Publishing, →ISBN, page 85:",
"text": "Cassava is a typical Garífuna food made from yucca, a semi-permanent crop found in tropical and subtropical regions. A basic food crop, yucca grows in poor soil where other crops will not.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The yuca (cassava)."
],
"links": [
[
"yuca",
"yuca"
],
[
"cassava",
"cassava"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(now proscribed, obsolete) The yuca (cassava)."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"proscribed"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈjʌkə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˈjʌkə/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈjuːkə/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌkə"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "juka",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "юка"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "iuca"
},
{
"code": "ccc",
"lang": "Chamicuro",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"word": "kinili"
},
{
"code": "chr",
"lang": "Cherokee",
"roman": "seluquoya",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"word": "ᏎᎷᏉᏯ"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"word": "絲蘭"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"word": "丝兰"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"word": "絲蘭"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "sīlán",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"word": "丝兰"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"word": "jukka"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Yucca"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Yuccapalme"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Palmlilie"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pálmalilja"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "júkka"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"word": "yuko"
},
{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"word": "tsáʼásziʼ"
},
{
"code": "par",
"lang": "Panamint",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"word": "tattsumpi"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "jukka"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "juka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "iúca"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "yucca"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "júkka",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ю́кка"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "juka"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "yuca"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"tags": [
"Guatemala",
"masculine"
],
"word": "cashcamote"
},
{
"code": "twf",
"lang": "Taos",
"sense": "evergreen plant",
"word": "phùolénemą"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"CRC Press",
"Carl Linnaeus",
"Kerikeri"
],
"word": "yucca"
}
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