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Icelandic
Etymology
Borrowed from Kari'na yuca (“cassava (Manihot esculenta)”). The word was applied to plants of the genus Yucca (now the main sense), because Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and others confused them with the cassava.
Noun
júkka f (genitive singular júkku, nominative plural júkkur)
- yucca
- Synonym: pálmalilja
Declension
Declension of júkka (feminine)
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