Word.ws English Dictionary

yucca borer

yucca borer noun: either of two Californian boring weevils (Rhinostomus frontalis and Scyphophorus yuccae).

Noun

yucca borer (plural yucca borers)

  1. Either of two Californian boring weevils (Rhinostomus frontalis and Scyphophorus yuccae).
  2. A large moth-like butterfly (skipper), Megathymus yuccae of the family Hesperiidae, whose larva bores in yucca roots.

Forms of yucca borer

pluralyucca borers

Questions about yucca borer

What does yucca borer mean?
Yucca borer means either of two Californian boring weevils (Rhinostomus frontalis and Scyphophorus yuccae).
What part of speech is yucca borer?
Yucca borer is a noun.
What is the plural of yucca borer?
The plural of yucca borer is yucca borers.

Words near yucca borer in the dictionary

  1. Yucateco
  2. Yucatecos
  3. Yucatecs
  4. Yucatán
  5. yucca
  6. yucca borer
  7. yucca borers
  8. yucca moth
  9. yucca moths
  10. Yucca Valley
  11. yuccaloeside

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: yucca borer (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “yucca borer.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/yucca_borer. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.