Family of mostly succulent plants, adapted to dry environments.
Constituting the order Opuntiales.
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Examples for "family Cactaceae "
Examples for "family Cactaceae "
1 Here, as in the Mohave Desert, are found the leafless, thickly spined forms of the cactus family .
2 We were discussing a point in the pacific science of botany: the relationship of the different forms of the cactus family .
3 It is a plant of the cactus family , as native to America as is Ashley's peculiar sense of beauty which you won't acknowledge.
4 "It is the bisnaga, sometimes called the 'niggerhead,' belonging to the cactus family , a plant that is ever hailed with joy by the thirsty traveler."
1 The similarity of certain xerophilous Euphorbiaceae to Cactaceae is a ready illustration of this phenomenon.
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