Family of mostly succulent plants, adapted to dry environments.
Constituting the order Opuntiales.
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Examples for "cactus "
Examples for "cactus "
1 She is raised in great numbers in cactus gardens planted on purpose.
2 The road-bed changed, the trees changed-allthe surroundings changed except the cactus .
3 The Apaches tried their rope saw, but the cactus parted the rope.
4 I wrenched my cactus - pinned arm free and struck her in the jaw.
5 Sometimes she teased him, she said he was like a cactus plant.
1 Scarlet patches lay on the slopes-thewide blossoms of the low cacti .
2 They photographed large proteas, cacti and succulents growing in the glass greenhouses.
3 We twisted and wriggled over the ground, among weeds and thorny cacti .
4 With all of these cacti , there were plenty of places to hide.
5 We made it up to the top, though, and wandered amid cacti .
1 He again ran away, and we pursued him through the thorny cactuses .
2 Are there poisonous cactuses that could kill you if you got pricked?
3 Accidental villas among olive trees appear; and men-servants watering the cactuses .
4 There were palms, cactuses , and orange trees, mixed with olive groves.
5 Dried cactuses , for example, are an excellent source of fuel.
1 The similarity of certain xerophilous Euphorbiaceae to Cactaceae is a ready illustration of this phenomenon.
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