Yucca aloifolia
         n 1: a stiff yucca with a short trunk; found in the southern
               United States and tropical America; has rigid spine-tipped
               leaves and clusters of white flowers [syn: {Spanish
               bayonet}, {Yucca aloifolia}]

English Dictionary: Yucca aloifolia	by the DICT Development Group
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ycleped \Y*cleped"\, p. p. [AS. geclipod, p. p. of clipian,       cleopian, cliopian, to call. See {Clepe}, and also the Note       under {Y-}.]       Called; named; -- obsolete, except in archaic or humorous       writings. [Spelt also {yclept}.]                   It is full fair to ben yclept madame.      --Chaucer.                   But come, thou goddess fair and free. In heaven ycleped                Euphrosyne.                                             --Milton.                   Those charming little missives ycleped valentines.                                                                               --Lamb.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Clepe \Clepe\ (kl[emac]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cleped}       (kl[emac]p"[ecr]d) [or] (kl[emac]pt); p. pr. & vb. n.       {Cleping}. Cf. {Ycleped}.] [AS. clepan, cleopian, clipian,       clypian, to cry, call.]       To call, or name. [Obs.]                   That other son was cleped Cambalo.         --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ycleped \Y*cleped"\, p. p. [AS. geclipod, p. p. of clipian,       cleopian, cliopian, to call. See {Clepe}, and also the Note       under {Y-}.]       Called; named; -- obsolete, except in archaic or humorous       writings. [Spelt also {yclept}.]                   It is full fair to ben yclept madame.      --Chaucer.                   But come, thou goddess fair and free. In heaven ycleped                Euphrosyne.                                             --Milton.                   Those charming little missives ycleped valentines.                                                                               --Lamb.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Yucca \[d8]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[94]l.), a small silvery moth ({Pronuba             yuccasella}) whose larv[91] feed on plants of the genus             Yucca.