saguaro

2 definitions found

saguaro - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Suwarrow \Su*war"row\, n. (Bot.)
     The giant cactus (Cereus giganteus); -- so named by the
     Indians of Arizona. Called also saguaro.
     [1913 Webster]

saguaro - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  saguaro
      n 1: 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 [syn: saguaro, sahuaro, Carnegiea gigantea]