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.

Exact synonyms: Yucca Baccata
Generic synonyms: Yucca

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.
Exact synonyms: Yucca Aloifolia
Generic synonyms: Yucca

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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