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A dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of the Coccus cacti, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera.
A plant of Central and Southern America, of the Cactus family, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it.
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p. p. & a.
Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus.
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A genus of cactaceous plants having flattened, jointed stems, and petals united in a tube. The flowers are very showy, and several species are in cultivation.
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The giant cactus (Cereus giganteus); -- so named by the Indians of Arizona. Called also saguaro.
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Belonging to, or like, the family of plants of which the prickly pear is a common example.
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A cactaceous shrub (Cereus Pitajaya) of tropical America, which yields a delicious fruit.
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A cactaceous plant (Nopalea cochinellifera), originally Mexican, on which the cochineal insect feeds, and from which it is collected. The name is sometimes given to other species of Cactaceae.
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A columnar cactaceous plant of the West Indies (Cereus Swartzii).
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A kind of sirup made by the Indians of Arizona from the fruit of some cactaceous plant (probably the Cereus giganteus).
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A genus of cactaceous plants; the prickly pear, or Indian fig.
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of Cactus
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Any plant of the order Cactacae, 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.
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Composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants.
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A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti).
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A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of America, from California to Chili.
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