Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or resembling the Cactaceæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Belonging to, or like, the family of plants of which the prickly pear is a common example.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Belonging to, or like, the family of plants of which the
prickly pear is a common example.
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Examples
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Fertile soils and spontaneous vegetation, reeking with miasma and overpowering from their odour, we had exchanged for a drouthy wilderness of aloetic and cactaceous plants, where the kolquall and several thorn bushes grew paramount.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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