Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bear_grass

4 senses of bear grass

Sense 1
bear grass, Yucca smalliana -- (yucca of southern United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers)
       => yucca -- (any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca having usually tall stout stems and a terminal cluster of white flowers; warmer regions of North America)

Sense 2
bear grass, Yucca glauca -- (yucca of west central United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers)
       => yucca -- (any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca having usually tall stout stems and a terminal cluster of white flowers; warmer regions of North America)

Sense 3
bear grass, Nolina microcarpa -- (stemless plant with tufts of grasslike leaves and erect panicle of minute creamy white flowers; southwestern United States and Mexico)
       => agave, century plant, American aloe -- (tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber)

Sense 4
squaw grass, bear grass, Xerophyllum tenax -- (plant of western North America having woody rhizomes and tufts of stiff grasslike basal leaves and spikes of creamy white flowers)
       => liliaceous plant -- (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)