Spanish bayonet

n 1: tall woody-stemmed yucca of southwestern United States and

Mexico having stiff swortlike pointed leaves and a large

cluster of white flowers [syn: {Spanish bayonet}, {Yucca

baccata}]

2: stiff short-trunked yucca of southern United States and

tropical America with rigid spine-tipped leaves and

clusters of white flowers [syn: {Spanish bayonet}, {Yucca

aloifolia}]