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  2. Yucca - Wikipedia

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    References to yucca root as food often arise from confusion with the similarly pronounced, but botanically unrelated, yuca, also called cassava or manioc (Manihot esculenta). Roots of soaptree yucca (Yucca elata) are high in saponins and are used as a shampoo in Native American rituals. Dried yucca leaves and trunk fibers have a low ignition ...

  3. Cassava - Wikipedia

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    The tuberous roots are largely starch, with small amounts of calcium (16 milligrams per 100 grams), phosphorus (27 mg/100 g), and vitamin C (20.6 mg/100 g). [6] Cassava roots contains little protein, whereas the leaves are rich in it, [7] except for being low in methionine, an essential amino acid. [8]

  4. Yucca elata - Wikipedia

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    Yucca elata is a perennial plant, with common names that include soaptree, soaptree yucca, soapweed, and palmella. [3] [4] It is native to southwestern North America, in the Sonoran Desert and Chihuahuan Desert in the United States (western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona), southern Nevada, southwestern Utah, and northern Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora, Nuevo León).

  5. List of English words from Indigenous languages of the Americas

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    from the Inuktitut word saimo (ᓴᐃᒧ Inuktitut pronunciation:, a word of greeting, farewell, and toast before drinking. [113] Used as a greeting and cheer by the Canadian Military Engineers , and more widely in some parts of Southern Ontario and Western Canada, particularly in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan [ citation needed ]

  6. List of organisms with names derived from Indigenous ...

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    "Yuca" was the actual Taíno name for the plant, but Linnaeus mistakenly used the name for the unrelated Yucca plant. Man(d)ioca (manioc) and mandi'o (manihot) are respectively the Tupí and Guaraní names of the plant, both from oca (house) of the mythical figure Man(d)í. [50] Cayenne pepper (Capsicum annuum var.) pepper: Tupi: From kyynha ...

  7. Yucca (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Yucca is a genus in the plant family Asparagaceae containing species commonly known as yuccas. Yucca may also refer to: Hesperoyucca whipplei , a species of flowering plant closely related to, and formerly usually included in, the genus Yucca

  8. Botanical Latin - Wikipedia

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    It includes taxon names derived from any language or even arbitrarily derived, [3] and consequently there is no single consistent pronunciation system. When speakers of different languages use Botanical Latin in speech, they use pronunciations influenced by their own languages, or, notably in French, there may be variant spellings based on the ...

  9. List of descriptive plant species epithets (A–H) - Wikipedia

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    These scientific names have been catalogued in a variety of works, including Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners. William Stearn (1911–2001) was one of the pre-eminent British botanists of the 20th century: a Librarian of the Royal Horticultural Society , a president of the Linnean Society and the original drafter of the ...