Cacti
any of numerous succulent plants of the family Cactaceae, of warm, arid regions of the New World, having fleshy, leafless, usually spiny stems, and typically having solitary, showy flowers.
Historical Examples
Sielanka: An Idyll Henryk Sienkiewicz
Adventures of a Young Naturalist Lucien Biart
The Mystery Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams
The Mexican Twins Lucy Fitch Perkins
Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water Lady (Ethel Gwendoline [Moffatt]) Vincent
The Mystic Mid-Region Arthur J. Burdick
Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern Rosa Belle Holt
Deserts A. S. Walker
Aztec Land Maturin M. Ballou
The Fantastic Clan John James Thornber
noun (pl) -tuses, -ti (-taɪ)
any spiny succulent plant of the family Cactaceae of the arid regions of America. Cactuses have swollen tough stems, leaves reduced to spines or scales, and often large brightly coloured flowers
cactus dahlia, a double-flowered variety of dahlia
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noun a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum of South America, that was introduced into Australia to act as a biological control on the prickly pear
- Cactus-dahlia
any of several varieties of dahlia having large flower heads with numerous rays incurved to a quill-like form.
- Cactus-geranium
a plant, Pelargonium echinatum, of the geranium family, native to southern Africa, having prickly stipules and white or reddish flowers.
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- Cactus-moth
a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum, native to South America and introduced into Australia to control prickly pear cactus, on which the larvae feed.