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cactus - any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines |
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succulent a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs
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cactaceae,
cactus family,
family cactaceae constituting the order Opuntiales
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acanthocereus pentagonus,
acanthocereus tetragonus,
pitahaya,
pitahaya cactus highly colored edible fruit of pitahaya cactus having bright red juice; often as large as a peach
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aporocactus flagelliformis,
rat's-tail cactus,
rattail cactus commonly cultivated tropical American cactus having slender creeping stems and very large showy crimson flowers that bloom for several days
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ariocarpus fissuratus,
living rock 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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carnegiea gigantea,
saguaro,
sahuaro 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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night-blooming cereus any of several cacti of the genus Cereus
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coryphantha a cactus of the genus Coryphantha
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barrel cactus,
echinocactus a cactus of the genus Ferocactus: unbranched barrel-shaped cactus having deep ribs with numerous spines and usually large funnel-shaped flowers followed by dry fruits
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hedgehog cereus cactus of the genus Echinocereus
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rainbow cactus a stout cylindrical cactus of the southwest United States and adjacent Mexico
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epiphyllum,
orchid cactus any cactus of the genus Epiphyllum having flattened jointed irregularly branching stems and showy tubular flowers
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barrel cactus a cactus of the genus Ferocactus: unbranched barrel-shaped cactus having deep ribs with numerous spines and usually large funnel-shaped flowers followed by dry fruits
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easter cactus,
hatiora gaertneri,
schlumbergera gaertneri spring-blooming South American cactus with oblong joints and coral-red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Schlumbergera
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night-blooming cereus any of several cacti of the genus Cereus
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chichipe,
lemaireocereus chichipe tall treelike Mexican cactus with edible red fruit
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lophophora williamsii,
mescal,
mezcal,
peyote a colorless Mexican liquor distilled from fermented juices of certain desert plants of the genus Agavaceae (especially the century plant)
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mammillaria any cactus of the genus Mammillaria
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feather ball,
mammillaria plumosa a low tuberculate cactus with white feathery spines; northeastern Mexico
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garambulla,
garambulla cactus,
myrtillocactus geometrizans small berrylike fruit
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knowlton's cactus,
pediocactus knowltonii small clustering cactus of southwestern United States; a threatened species
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nopal any of several cacti of the genus Nopalea resembling prickly pears
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prickly pear,
prickly pear cactus round or pear-shaped spiny fruit of any of various prickly pear cacti
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cholla,
opuntia cholla arborescent cacti having very spiny cylindrical stem segments; southwestern United States and Mexico
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mistletoe cactus a plant of the genus Rhipsalis
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christmas cactus,
schlumbergera baridgesii,
schlumbergera buckleyi epiphytic cactus of Brazilian ancestry widely cultivated as a houseplant having jointed flat segments and usually rose-purple flowers that bloom in winter
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night-blooming cereus any of several cacti of the genus Cereus
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crab cactus,
schlumbergera truncatus,
thanksgiving cactus,
zygocactus truncatus South American jointed cactus with usually red flowers; often cultivated as a houseplant; sometimes classified as genus Schlumbergera
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