Synonyms:
cactus
Meaning: any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines
Usage examples
THE CACTUS
Wherever did you rake up this cactus, Trysdale?"
Still the interminable succession of stretches of brush, cactus, and mesquite.
Their packs bore tanned skins, fruit of the saguaro cactus, edible roots of the mescal plant, and other trade goods.
The Kid crept noiselessly to the very edge of the pear thicket and reconnoitred between the leaves of a clump of cactus.
When he had finished with the orange-tree, he began at the cactus; but this, not being so easily plucked as the orange-tree, pricked him dreadfully.
They were lowly shrubs of earth, here attaining gigantic size; lycopodiums, a hundred feet high; the huge sigillaria, found in our coal mines; tree ferns, as tall as our fir-trees in northern latitudes; lepidodendra, with cylindrical forked stems, terminated by long leaves, and bristling with rough hairs like those of the cactus.