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Cactus

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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Epiphyllum 76% connected

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 cul…

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Mescal 76% connected

A distilled liquor prepared in Mexico from a species of agave. See Agave.

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Mezcal 76% connected

Same as Mescal.

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Nopal 76% connected

A cactaceous plant (Nopalea cochinellifera), originally Mexican, on which the cochineal insect feeds, and from which it is collected. The name is som…

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Pitahaya 76% connected

A cactaceous shrub (Cereus Pitajaya) of tropical America, which yields a delicious fruit.

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Succulent 76% connected

Full of juice; juicy.

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Angiosperm noun · 86% connection

plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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Annual noun · 86% connection

(botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year

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Apophysis noun · 86% connection

(botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers

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Bast noun · 86% connection

(botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes

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Biennial noun · 86% connection

(botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usuall…

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Blister noun · 86% connection

(botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin

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Callus noun · 86% connection

(botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid

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Calyx noun · 86% connection

(botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and support…

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Coma noun · 86% connection

(botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds)

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Corolla noun · 86% connection

(botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth; "we cultivate the f…

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Corona noun · 86% connection

(botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower

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Embryo noun · 86% connection

(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium

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Fern noun · 86% connection

any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by s…

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Flowering plant noun · 86% connection

plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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Germ tube noun · 86% connection

(botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a spore in germination

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Leaf node noun · 86% connection

(botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge

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Ligule noun · 86% connection

(botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap

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Lip noun · 86% connection

(botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx

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Avocado noun · 78% connection

The pulpy fruit of Persea gratissima, a tree of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; -- called also avoca…

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Barberry noun · 78% connection

any of numerous plants of the genus Berberis having prickly stems and yellow flowers followed by small red berries

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Bartlett noun · 78% connection

A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchretien. It was brought…

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Besiege verb · 78% connection

To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, order, cactacae, prickly, pear.
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Branching adjective · 78% connection

Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches.

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Branchy adjective · 78% connection

Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches.

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Briar noun · 78% connection

Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

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Brier noun · 78% connection

Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

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Bullbrier noun · 78% connection

a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves a…

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Burrel noun · 78% connection

A sort of pear, called also the red butter pear, from its smooth, delicious, soft pulp.

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Cactaceous adjective · 78% connection

Belonging to, or like, the family of plants of which the prickly pear is a common example.

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Dildo noun · 78% connection

A columnar cactaceous plant of the West Indies (Cereus Swartzii).

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