yucca
     n : 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

Yucca \Yuc"ca\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
   See Flicker, n., 2.

Yucca \Yuc"ca\, n. [NL., from Yuca, its name in St. Domingo.]
   (Bot.)
   A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants
   having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a
   more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy
   white blossoms.

   Note: The species with more rigid leaves (as Yucca
         aloifolia, Y. Treculiana, and Y. baccata) are
         called Spanish bayonet, and one with softer leaves
         (Y. filamentosa) is called bear grass, and Adam's
         needle.

   Yucca moth (Zo["o]l.), a small silvery moth (Pronuba
      yuccasella) whose larv[ae] feed on plants of the genus
      Yucca.

Flicker \Flick"er\, n.
   1. The act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden
      and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of
      the dying flame.

   2. (Zo["o]l.) The golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes
      aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also
      yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and
      yucca.

            The cackle of the flicker among the oaks.
                                                  --Thoureau.