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   Yves Tanguy
         n 1: United States surrealist painter (born in France)
               (1900-1955) [syn: {Tanguy}, {Yves Tanguy}]

English Dictionary: Yves Tanguy by the DICT Development Group
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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ypight \Y*pight"\, obs. p. p. of {Pitch}.
      See {Pight}.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Yuba City, CA (city, FIPS 86972)
      Location: 39.13547 N, 121.62274 W
      Population (1990): 27437 (11068 housing units)
      Area: 17.9 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 95991, 95993
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