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What is a yucca?

What is a yucca? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. 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.
  2. (now proscribed, obsolete) The yuca (cassava).
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The common yucca, Y. filamentosa, is also known as Eve's thread or Adam's needle, since both threads and needles can be made from the leaves.
The area where we're working is full of newly-planted yucca, papayas, sweet potatoes, and herbs like marjoram and stevia as ground cover.
It searches among the yucca cactuses and Joshua trees for a lonely radar station atop a mountain peak.
There's a complete chain of command to determine where the office yucca plant should go.
Olla de carne, the traditional stew, is made with beef, potatoes, corn, plantains, squash, yucca, and other vegetables.
Those of Y. brevifolia, the Joshua tree yucca, are best if parboiled first, to remove bitterness.

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