Spanish dagger

English

Noun

Spanish dagger (plural Spanish daggers)

1. 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.