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Meanings of prickly pear cactus in English
Portuguese
figo-da-índia Cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock.
Usage of prickly pear cactus in English
1
The streetlight made a soft golden circle on the prickly pear cactus beside the sidewalk.
2
Visit Website I must arise and go to the mountain's edge where prickly pear cactus and yuccas grow.
3
Kayla picked up a decorative stone from the base of a prickly pear cactus and flung it toward Gretchen.
4
The prickly pear cactus, or Indian fig, of the genus Opuntia is a common as well as a numerous family.
5
The way to learning is long and beset with as many thorns as the crooked path through the prickly pear cactus.
6
We see quails and are warned not to go too close to the prickly pear cactus and the crucifixion cactus -aptly named.
7
When we had to use this water, we bruised the leaf of a prickly pear cactus, and placed it in a bucket of water.
8
The terrain presented plenty of brush, dry weeds that came up to mid-calf level, clumps of prickly pear cactus that had to be skirted.
9
Behind them rose the rough trunk of a palm tree, a prickly pear cactus bearing dark red fruit, a spray of pink flowering bougainvillaea.
10
"Did you know," Allison said, in a measured tone, "that you can get water out of a prickly pear cactus?"