Cactus

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. ·see Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America.

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cactus
cactus, i, m., = κάκτος, I a prickly plant with edible stalks , etc., found in Sicily, Spanish arti...

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