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Definition of Spanish bayonet

1. Noun. 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.

2. 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.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spanish Bayonet

Spanish American Spanish Arabic Spanish Armada Spanish Civil War Spanish Guinea Spanish Inquisition Spanish Main Spanish Netherlands Spanish Sahara Spanish Sign Language

Spanish Town Spanish Virgin Islands Spanish War Spanish Water Dog Spanish Water Dogs Spanish bayonet (current term) Spanish broom Spanish burgoo Spanish capital Spanish cedar

Spanish cedar tree Spanish chestnut Spanish chestnuts Spanish dagger Spanish donkey Spanish donkeys Spanish elm Spanish fever Spanish flu Spanish fly

Literary usage of Spanish bayonet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians by Wilfred William Robbins, John Peabody Harrington, Barbara W. Freire-Marreco (1916)
"Children arc fumigated with it as a cure for urinary disorders. Pa (Hano Tewa, p'aly,). Yucca baccata. Yucca, Spanish bayonet. New Mexican Spanish datil. ..."

2. Our Next-door Neighbor: A Winter in Mexico by Gilbert Haven (1875)
"—Ceral Hard-tack.—Not so Hard.—Mexican Birds. —Smoking-girls.—Laguna Scca.—La Punta.—First Breakfast in an Adobe. —Hacienda of Precita.—The Spanish bayonet. ..."

3. Our Next-door Neighbor: A Winter in Mexico by Gilbert Haven (1875)
"—Cerai Hard-tack.—Not so Hard.—Mexican Birds. —Smoking-girls.—Laguna Seca.—La Punta.—First Breakfast in an Adobe. —Hacienda of Precita.—The Spanish bayonet. ..."

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