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Noun: Spanish bayonet
  1. 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
    - Yucca aloifolia
     
  2. 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
    - Yucca baccata

Derived forms: Spanish bayonets

Type of: yucca

Encyclopedia: Spanish bayonet