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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several cacti of the Americas that bear edible fruit, such as the saguaro.
  • noun The fruit of any of these plants.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Any tall columnar cactus bearing edible fruit, as Cereus giganteus, the giant cactus, and C. Thurberi. Also pitajaya.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A cactaceous shrub (Cereus Pitajaya) of tropical America, which yields a delicious fruit.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun dragon fruit

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun highly colored edible fruit of pitahaya cactus having bright red juice; often as large as a peach
  • noun cactus of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having edible juicy fruit

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[American Spanish, of Taíno origin.]

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