Spanish dagger

English

Noun

Spanish dagger (plural Spanish daggers)

Any of several species of flowering plant in the genus Yucca, especially Yucca gloriosa.
- a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, Penguin, published 1981, →ISBN:
  The Spanish dagger plants at the gate pricked his calves painfully and he stumbled forward.

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