[Native name.] A West Indian evergreen tree, of either of two species of Podocarpus (P. coriacea and P. Purdieana, N. O. Taxaceæ), or its wood, used in cabinet-work, etc. Also attrib.
1843. Holtzapffel, Turning, I. 109. Yacca Wood, or Yacher, from Jamaica, is sent in short crooked pieces like roots.
1864. Grisebach, Flora W. Ind. Isl., 789. Yacca tree, Podocarpus coriacea.
1890. H. Thomas, Untrodden Jamaica, 10. A gate composed of closely set pales of Yacca.
