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Joshua Tree

Joshua Tree proper noun: a census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.

joshua tree: a census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States
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Proper noun

Joshua Tree

  1. A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.

Noun capitalized: Joshua tree

Joshua tree (plural Joshua trees)

  1. A tree-like yucca, Yucca brevifolia, of the southwestern United States, with spiky leaves.
    • Joshua trees that were salvaged by hand showed only 4% mortality in the nursery each of the first two years.1995, Raymond L. Franson, “Health of Plants Salvaged for Revegetation at the Mojave Desert Gold Mine: Year Two”, in Bruce A. Roundy, E. Durant McArthur, Jennifer S. Hayley, David K. Mann, editors...
    • While the Joshua tree ranges into the Great Basin and Sonoran Deserts. it has become synonymous with the Mojave. There are two different subspecies of Joshua trees: the larger Yucca brevifolia brevifolla, which grows at Joshua Tree National Park, and the more densely branched Yucca brevifolia...2004, Matthew Jaffe, Mojave National Preserve, page 8

Joshua Tree meaning in Tamil

Joshua Tree in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Forms of Joshua Tree

pluralJoshua trees

Origin of Joshua Tree

Apparently from the resemblance of the tree to Joshua holding out his spear.

Questions about Joshua Tree

What does Joshua Tree mean?
Joshua Tree means a census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
What is Joshua Tree in Tamil?
Joshua Tree in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Joshua Tree meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Joshua Tree?
Joshua Tree can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Joshua Tree in the dictionary

  1. joshingly
  2. joshings
  3. Joshis
  4. joshpara
  5. Joshua
  6. Joshua Tree
  7. Joshua trees
  8. Joshuas
  9. joshy
  10. Josiah
  11. Josiane

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Joshua Tree (page history and authors); Joshua tree (page history and authors); Joshua tree (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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