CactusWordNet Explorer

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noun

a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs

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constituting the order Opuntiales

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cactus of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having edible juicy fruit

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commonly cultivated tropical American cactus having slender creeping stems and very large showy crimson flowers that bloom for several days

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usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit; resembles the related mescal; northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States

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extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit

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any of several cacti of the genus Cereus

noun

a cactus of the genus Coryphantha

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