The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Adam \Ad"am\, n.
1. The name given in the Bible to the first man, the
progenitor of the human race.
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2. (As a symbol) "Original sin;" human frailty.
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And whipped the offending Adam out of him. --Shak.
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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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Yucca \Yuc"ca\, n. [NL., from Yuca, its name in St. Domingo.]
(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.
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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.
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Yucca moth (Zool.), a small silvery moth (Pronuba
yuccasella) whose larvae feed on plants of the genus
Yucca.
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