spanish bayonet

Noun

• 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

• tall yucca of the southwestern United States and Mexico having a woody stem and stiff swordlike pointed leaves and a large cluster of white flowers

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Spanish bayonet , Yucca aloifolia , Yucca baccata