CACTUS meaning: Succulent plant with spines, drought-resistant

We found 38 dictionaries that define the word cactus:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

cactus: Merriam-Webster
cactus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
cactus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
cactus: Collins English Dictionary
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Cactus, cactus: Wordnik
cactus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
cactus: Wiktionary
cactus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
cactus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
cactus: Infoplease Dictionary
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cactus: Online Etymology Dictionary
cactus: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Cactus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
cactus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
cactus: Rhymezone
cactus, cactus, cactus, cactus (de), cactus (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
cactus: FreeDictionary.org
cactus: Mnemonic Dictionary
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cactus: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
cactus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

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cactus: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

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Science (3 matching dictionaries)

Cactus, Cactus: Botanical Name listing of Plants
A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)
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Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

cactus, cactus: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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cactus: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (botany) Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate.
▸ noun:  Any succulent plant with a thick fleshy stem bearing spines but no leaves, such as euphorbs.
▸ adjective:  (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Non-functional, broken, exhausted, dead.
▸ noun:  A city in Texas.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in California.

Opposite:

non-cactus, succulent, plant, flora

Types:

saguaro, prickly pear, cholla, cane, pereskiopsis, cardboard, more...

Phrases:

saguaro cactus, barrel cactus, peyote cactus, Christmas cactus, cactus wren, more...

Adjectives:

prickly, giant, pear, small, spineless, nopal, large, tall, thorny, spiny, organ

Colors:

green, olive, sage, mint, lime, more...

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