Spanish dagger

Spanish dagger (plural Spanish daggers)

1. Any of several species of flowering plant in the genus Yucca, especially Yucca gloriosa.
   • 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN:

     The Spanish dagger plants at the gate pricked his calves painfully and he stumbled forward.