cactus

4 definitions found

cactus - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Cactus \Cac"tus\, n.; pl. E. Cactuses, Cacti (-t[imac]).
     [L., a kind of cactus, Gr. ??????.] (Bot.)
     Any plant of the order Cactac[ae], 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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Cactus wren (Zool.), an American wren of the genus
        Campylorhynchus, of several species.
        [1913 Webster]

cactus - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  cactus
      n 1: any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly
           to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines

cactus - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Cactus, TX (city, FIPS 11692)
    Location: 36.04473 N, 102.01110 W
    Population (1990): 1529 (478 housing units)
    Area: 5.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

cactus - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "cactus":
     bramble, brier, bristle, burr, catchweed, cleavers, goose grass,
     needle, nettle, pine needle, prickle, quill, spicule, spiculum,
     spike, spikelet, spine, sticker, thistle, thorn, yucca