Spanish dagger

noun

noun

Any of several species of flowering plant in the genus Yucca, especially Yucca gloriosa.

The Spanish dagger plants at the gate pricked his calves painfully and he stumbled forward.1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN:

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