Cactus - Law Dictionary Search Results
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any of several large cacti native to the southwestern U S and Mexico having a short cylindrical form with deep vertical ribs and bearing sharp spines They are classed in the genera Ferocactus and Echinocactus...
Cactus
Any plant of the order Cactacaelig 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...
Campylorhynchus
an alternative genus classification for the cactus wrens...
Cereus
A genus of plants of the Cactus family They are natives of America from California to Chili...
Cochineal
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...
Cochineal fig
A plant of Central and Southern America of the Cactus family extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect which lives on it...
garambulla
An arborescent cactus of Western Mexico Myrtillocactus geometrizans bearing a small oblong edible berrylike fruit...
Heleodytes
A genus comprising the cactus wrens one of several alternative classifications...
Opuntiales
An order of plants coextensive with the family Cactaceae comprising the cactuses...
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