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单词 joshua yucca
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Joshua yucca
In full Joshua palm, Joshua tree, Joshua yucca. A small evergreen tree, Yucca brevifolia, bearing clustered white flowers and found in western, desert regions.
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1867 W. H. Jackson Diary 15 Feb. (1959) i. 134 Sage brush is used for cooking and the cactus or Joshuas, as I hear them called, for other fires.
1897 G. B. Sudworth Nomencl. Arborescent Flora U.S. 106 Yucca arborescens... Joshua Yucca... Common names... The Joshua (Utah). Joshua Tree (Utah, Ariz., N. Mex.).
1946 E. S. Gardner D.A. breaks Seal 3 Joshua palms, thrusting up grotesque spine-covered arms, made the scenery resemble some fantastic reconstruction of life on another planet.
1948 A. Huxley Ape & Essence (1949) 12 A strangely gesticulating Joshua-tree, rough-barked, or furred with dry prickles.
1955 Sci. Amer. Apr. 69 (caption) Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) grow among the fantastic rock formations of the Joshua Tree National Monument in southern California east of Los Angeles. These plants are characteristic of high steppe-desert vegetation in the southwestern U.S.
1964 H. A. Gleason & A. Cronquist Nat. Geogr. Plants xxii. 408 Some of the most interesting plants of the Sonoran Floristic Province are giant Joshua (Yucca brevifolia) [etc.].
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