The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spanish \Span"ish\, a. Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards. Spanish bayonet (Bot.), a liliaceous plant ( Yucca alorifolia) with rigid spine-tipped leaves. The name is also applied to other similar plants of the Southwestern United States and mexico. Called also Spanish daggers. Spanish bean (Bot.) See the Note under Bean. Spanish black, a black pigment obtained by charring cork. --Ure. Spanish broom (Bot.), a leguminous shrub ( Spartium junceum) having many green flexible rushlike twigs. Spanish brown, a species of earth used in painting, having a dark reddish brown color, due to the presence of sesquioxide of iron. Spanish buckeye (Bot.), a small tree ( Ungnadia speciosa) of Texas, New Mexico, etc., related to the buckeye, but having pinnate leaves and a three-seeded fruit. Spanish burton (Naut.), a purchase composed of two single blocks. A double Spanish burton has one double and two single blocks. --Luce (Textbook of Seamanship). Spanish chalk (Min.), a kind of steatite; -- so called because obtained from Aragon in Spain. Spanish cress (Bot.), a cruciferous plant ( Lepidium Cadamines), a species of peppergrass. Spanish curlew (Zo["o]l.), the long-billed curlew. [U.S.] Spanish daggers (Bot.) See Spanish bayonet. Spanish elm (Bot.), a large West Indian tree ( Cordia Gerascanthus) furnishing hard and useful timber. Spanish feretto, a rich reddish brown pigment obtained by calcining copper and sulphur together in closed crucibles. Spanish flag (Zo["o]l.), the California rockfish ( Sebastichthys rubrivinctus). It is conspicuously colored with bands of red and white. Spanish fly (Zo["o]l.), a brilliant green beetle, common in the south of Europe, used for raising blisters. See Blister beetle under Blister, and Cantharis. Spanish fox (Naut.), a yarn twisted against its lay. Spanish grass. (Bot.) See Esparto. Spanish juice (Bot.), licorice. Spanish leather. See Cordwain. Spanish mackerel. (Zo["o]l.)
A species of mackerel ( Scomber colias) found both in Europe and America. In America called chub mackerel, big-eyed mackerel, and bull mackerel.
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In the United States, a handsome mackerel having bright yellow round spots ( Scomberomorus maculatus), highly esteemed as a food fish. The name is sometimes erroneously applied to other species. See Illust. under Mackerel.
Spanish main, the name formerly given to the southern portion of the Caribbean Sea, together with the contiguous coast, embracing the route traversed by Spanish treasure ships from the New to the Old World.
Spanish moss. (Bot.) See Tillandsia (and note at that entry).
Spanish needles (Bot.), a composite weed ( Bidens bipinnata) having achenia armed with needlelike awns.
Spanish nut (Bot.), a bulbous plant ( Iris Sisyrinchium) of the south of Europe.
Spanish potato (Bot.), the sweet potato. See under Potato.
Spanish red, an ocherous red pigment resembling Venetian red, but slightly yellower and warmer.
--Fairholt.Spanish reef (Naut.), a knot tied in the head of a jib-headed sail.
Spanish sheep (Zo["o]l.), a merino.
Spanish white, an impalpable powder prepared from chalk by pulverizing and repeated washings, -- used as a white pigment.
Spanish windlass (Naut.), a wooden roller, with a rope wound about it, into which a marline spike is thrust to serve as a lever.
Yucca \Yuc"ca\, n. [NL., from Yuca, its name in St. Domingo.] (Bot.) A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.
Note: The species with more rigid leaves (as Yucca aloifolia, Yucca Treculiana, and Yucca baccata) are called Spanish bayonet, and one with softer leaves ( Yucca filamentosa) is called bear grass, and Adam's needle.
Yucca moth (Zo["o]l.), a small silvery moth ( Pronuba yuccasella) whose larv[ae] feed on plants of the genus Yucca.
Wikipedia
Spanish bayonet or Spanish dagger is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
- Hesperoyucca whipplei — Southern California, United States and Baja California, Mexico.
- Yucca aloifolia — Southeastern U.S, Mexico, Caribbean.
- Yucca faxoniana — Chihuahuan Desert region of northern Mexico and Southwestern U.S.
- Yucca gloriosa — Southeastern U.S.
- Yucca harrimaniae — Rocky Mountains and Great Basin of the Southwestern U.S.
- Yucca schidigera — Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert regions of Southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico.
- Yucca treculeana — Texas, New Mexico, Coahuila
Usage examples of "spanish bayonet".
It led through a dense, semi-tropical forest in the direction of the swamp beyond, the way being well beaten, but here and there jealously crowded by an undergrowth of brambles and the prickly Spanish bayonet.
Then the dust was gone, a yellow-gray curtain across distant clumps of Spanish bayonet, and the ferry itself was a lens rather than a disk as it shot past the helicopters circling at five hundred meters.
Giant mule-jacks stood like sleepy sentries under the needly groves of Spanish Bayonet.
Owing to the peculiar shape of its leaves it is also called Spanish bayonet.
Anyone vaulting the fence would find himself knee deep in dagger-like Spanish bayonet, combat-ready cactus and the thorniest desert brush.
The base of the house was landscaped with a variety of broad-leafed cactusSpanish bayonet, I thought, so named for good reasonand I pushed through them with care.
Cactus, mesquite, sagebrush, Spanish bayonet, made the chase painful.