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Meanings of Spanish bayonet in English
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.
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.
Usage of Spanish bayonet in English
1
The white, lilylike flowers of the Spanish bayonet flaunted themselves everywhere.
2
Owing to the peculiar shape of its leaves it is also called Spanish bayonet.
3
At last, screened by a Spanish bayonet, he commanded a view of the camp.
4
Ceremonial rings are also made of the Spanish bayonet (yucca).
5
It grew until they felt the need to hide, concealing themselves behind a clump of Spanish bayonet.
6
As Ned's Spanish bayonet wounds kept him from sleeping, the boys sat up and talked till daylight.
7
The trail led out a ways, and just vanished in all of the low grasses and Spanish bayonet.
8
They are covered thinly with buff grass, the withered stalks of flowers, Spanish bayonet, and a small beehive-shaped cactus.
9
The drive lies between broad white balustrades, and the moon shone down on us between the leaves of the Spanish bayonet.
10
Then there was no Santa Fé Railway, and no Daggett-justa wide stretch of desert dotted with yucca and Spanish bayonet.
11
A Spanish bayonet pricked her in the arm, and she made a monosyllabic exclamation in which there was more anger than pain.
12
Eagleburger could make out the waxy leaves of Spanish bayonet, could see clumps of oleander with bundles of flowers blooming in the night.
13
The desert flowered gayly with the purple, pink, and scarlet blossoms of the cacti and with the white, lilylike buds of the Spanish bayonet.
14
The railroad-banks were hedged with Spanish bayonet, and in places with cactus grown into trees, all knees and elbows, and of a diabolical uncouthness.
15
The cactus was higher; some of the "organ" variety, many of the " Spanish bayonet" species, lance-like stalks eight to ten feet high.
16
Ned fell headforemost into a thicket of the terrible Spanish bayonet and it was only the excitement of the hour that made the pain bearable.
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