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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Bot.) A plant of Central and Southern America, of the Cactus family, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it.
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- noun A
plant of Central and South America, of thecactus family, cultivated for the sake of thecochineal insect , which lives on it.
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