Vi fant 6 definisjoner av cactus på engelsk.
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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 | ||
| succulent a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs | ||
| cactaceae, cactus family, family cactaceae constituting the order Opuntiales | ||
| acanthocereus pentagonus, acanthocereus tetragonus, pitahaya cactus, pitahaya cactus of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having edible juicy fruit | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| night-blooming cereus any of several cacti of the genus Cereus | ||
| coryphantha a cactus of the genus Coryphantha | ||
| echinocactus, barrel cactus any cactus of the genus Echinocactus; strongly ribbed and very spiny; southwestern United States to Brazil | ||
| hedgehog cereus cactus of the genus Echinocereus | ||
| rainbow cactus a stout cylindrical cactus of the southwest United States and adjacent Mexico | ||
| epiphyllum, orchid cactus any cactus of the genus Epiphyllum having flattened jointed irregularly branching stems and showy tubular flowers | ||
| 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 | ||
| easter cactus, hatiora gaertneri, schlumbergera gaertneri spring-blooming South American cactus with oblong joints and coral-red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Schlumbergera | ||
| night-blooming cereus any of several cacti of the genus Cereus | ||
| chichipe, lemaireocereus chichipe tall treelike Mexican cactus with edible red fruit | ||
| lophophora williamsii, mezcal, mescal, peyote a colorless Mexican liquor distilled from fermented juices of certain desert plants of the genus Agavaceae (especially the century plant) | ||
| mammillaria any cactus of the genus Mammillaria | ||
| feather ball, mammillaria plumosa a low tuberculate cactus with white feathery spines; northeastern Mexico | ||
| garambulla cactus, myrtillocactus geometrizans, garambulla small berrylike fruit | ||
| knowlton's cactus, pediocactus knowltonii small clustering cactus of southwestern United States; a threatened species | ||
| nopal any of several cacti of the genus Nopalea resembling prickly pears | ||
| prickly pear cactus, prickly pear round or pear-shaped spiny fruit of any of various prickly pear cacti | ||
| cholla, opuntia cholla arborescent cacti having very spiny cylindrical stem segments; southwestern United States and Mexico | ||
| mistletoe cactus a plant of the genus Rhipsalis | ||
| 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 | ||
| night-blooming cereus any of several cacti of the genus Cereus | ||
