| English noun: bear grass | 
| 1. | bear grass (plant) yucca of southern United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers | 
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 | Synonyms | Yucca smalliana | 
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 | Broader (hypernym) | yucca | 
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| 2. | bear grass (plant) 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 | 
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 | Synonyms | Yucca glauca | 
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 | Broader (hypernym) | yucca | 
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| 3. | bear grass (plant) stemless plant with tufts of grasslike leaves and erect panicle of minute creamy white flowers; southwestern United States and Mexico | 
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 | Synonyms | Nolina microcarpa | 
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 | Broader (hypernym) | agave, American aloe, century plant | 
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 | Member meronym | genus Nolina, Nolina | 
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| 4. | bear grass (plant) plant of western North America having woody rhizomes and tufts of stiff grasslike basal leaves and spikes of creamy white flowers | 
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 | Synonyms | squaw grass, Xerophyllum tenax | 
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 | Broader (hypernym) | liliaceous plant | 
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 | Member meronym | genus Xerophyllum, Xerophyllum | 
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