cactus
IPA: kˈæktʌs
noun
- (botany) Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate.
- Any succulent plant with a thick fleshy stem bearing spines but no leaves, such as euphorbs.
- A city in Texas.
- An unincorporated community in California.
adjective
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang, dated) Non-functional, broken, exhausted, dead.
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Examples of "cactus" in Sentences
- Scorpions and cactus live in desert.
- One of the most beautiful of the cactus flowers.
- A favorite food in the wild is the Opuntia cactus.
- All of the other usages are derived from the cactus.
- The pith of the cactus can be as wide as 20 centimeters.
- Most of the territory is covered with mesquite trees and cactus.
- I was immediately taken with the sound of the cactus in particular.
- The leaves of cactus developed into thorns to reduce the loss of water.
- The Garden featured cactus and succulents from high deserts of the Americas.
- In 1905 he was elected editor of the University of Texas Yearbook The Cactus.