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Definition of Spanish dagger

1. Noun. Yucca of southeastern United States similar to the Spanish bayonets but with shorter trunk and smoother leaves.

2. Noun. Arborescent yucca of southwestern United States and northern Mexico with sword-shaped leaves and white flowers.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spanish Dagger

Spanish Sahara Spanish Sign Language Spanish Town Spanish Virgin Islands Spanish War Spanish Water Dog Spanish Water Dogs Spanish bayonet Spanish broom Spanish burgoo

Spanish capital Spanish cedar Spanish cedar tree Spanish chestnut Spanish chestnuts Spanish dagger (current term) Spanish donkey Spanish donkeys Spanish elm Spanish fever

Spanish flu Spanish fly Spanish garlic Spanish gorse Spanish green Spanish grunt Spanish guitar Spanish ham Spanish heath Spanish influenza

Literary usage of Spanish dagger

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

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... several cultivated species of yucca. The fiber of this plant is known as dagger-fiber. Also called Spanish dagger. ..."

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