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 Ad·am n.
 1. The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.
 2. As a symbol “Original sin;” human frailty.
    And whipped the offending Adam out of him.   --Shak.
 Adam's ale, water. [Coll.]
 Adam's apple.
 1. Bot. (a) A species of banana (Musa paradisiaca). It attains a height of twenty feet or more. --Paxton. (b) A species of lime (Citris limetta). 2. The projection formed by the thyroid cartilage in the neck. It is particularly prominent in males, and is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit (an apple) sticking in the throat of our first parent.
 Adam's flannel Bot., the mullein (Verbascum thapsus).
 Adam's needle Bot., the popular name of a genus (Yucca) of liliaceous plants.
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 Yuc·ca n.  Bot. A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.
 Note: ☞ The species with more rigid leaves (as Yucca aloifolia, Yucca Treculiana, and Yucca baccata) are called Spanish bayonet, and one with softer leaves  (Yucca filamentosa) is called bear grass, and Adam's needle.
 Yucca moth Zool., a small silvery moth (Pronuba yuccasella) whose larvae feed on plants of the genus Yucca.
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 Adam's needle
      n : yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages
          [syn: Adam's needle-and-thread, spoonleaf yucca, needle
          palm, Yucca filamentosa]