saguaro
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The saguaro is a signature plant of the Sonoran Desert.
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- noun A very large cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) of the southwest United States and northern Mexico, having ribbed upward-curving branches, white funnel-shaped flowers, and edible red fruit.
- noun The fruit of this cactus.
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- Ruthann says it takes fifty years for a saguaro to sprout a single arm. — Vanishing Acts
- She stops at the dried-out husk of a saguaro, and sits down. — Vanishing Acts
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The saguaro is a signature plant of the Sonoran Desert.
— Proclamation On Sonoran Desert Nationalmonument -
Scattered among the huge club-shaped columns of the saguaro is the cholla, the next largest of the cactuses.
— The Western United States A Geographical Reader -
… if you didn't know, and i didn't, a saguaro is a type of cactus …
— MetsBlog.com
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- American Spanish, probably of Piman origin.
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/ (sə-gwärˈō, -wärˈō)/
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