Word Finder - cactus

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Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate.

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Any succulent plant with a thick fleshy stem bearing spines but no leaves, such as euphorbs.

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Non-functional, broken, exhausted, dead.

The cactus is unquestionably the characteristic plant of Mexico.

Cactus and yucca occur in the west.

The variation is from dwarf mountain pine to giant cactus and dates.

The entire valley of the Rio Grande, from El Paso to Brownsville, grows many species of cactus, and other prickly coriaceous shrubs.

There are broad plains covered with salt and alkali, and others supporting only scattered bunch grass, sage bush, cactus and other arid land plants.

Many cases of plant poisoning involve plants that contain hallucinogens, such as peyote cactus buttons, certain types of mushrooms, and marijuana.

After beating each puzzle, you get to see a special drawing of one of the cacti in an amusing pose (like the Siamese twin cacti and the Matador Cactus).

Winter decorations in the bathroom can be as simple as a few plants, like a Christmas cactus and poinsettias installed on a windowsill, to a mob of motion activated, singing elves clinging to your shower curtain.

E. Simpsoni is a beautiful little Cactus (Pincushion Cactus) plant, a native of Colorado, occurring at great elevations, and hardy.

There is little graceful beauty about them, the stems being bent with the burden of a too heavy blossom, hence the greater popularity of the many lovely Cactus varieties.

Glasses come with cactus, palm tree and even golfer stems as well as ones that are done in pink or blue glass and ones that are hand etched or frosted.

Another popular Christmas flower is the Christmas cactus.

For example, hoodia is a cactus plant native to South Africa.

In the cactus house they speculated about highly indented cacti.

Christmas flowers or a Christmas cactus will brighten the classroom for the entire holiday season.

The embossing can simply have swirls and curves or can have more specific icons, such as a cactus, horse, cowboy or other Western theme.

For fresh and exotic Latin cooking ingredients, visit Perola Supermarket at 247 Augusta Ave. They carry fresh and dried ingredients including fresh cactus and extremely hot peppers.

The following is a select list of genera of stove plants (climbers are denoted by *, bulbous and tuberous plants by f) Acalypha Achimenest Aeschynanthus Allamanda* Alocasiat Amaryllist Anthurium Aphelandra Aralia Ardisia Arisaemaf Aristolochia * Ataccia Begonia Bertolonia Bignonia* Bromeliads Cactus Caladium f Calathea Centropogon Cissus* Clerodendron * Crinumt Codiaeum (Croton) ORcftIDs.

Growth and mycotoxin production of aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus were inhibited by extracts of Agave cactus (the cactus used in tequila ).

Once the programs dictionary has been updated to include cactus specific terms, the translation process is a much shorter one.

On the small land trail, the main feature is the unique giant prickly pear cactus.

Patches of tall cactus, thorn scrub, and thatch palms are typical of this habitat.

For one, the patent rights for P57, as the active ingredient of the hoodia cactus is known, remains with the CSIR.

Unlike steak you purchase at the store, cactus paddles have lots of little prickers on them.

The cactus just explodes and about 150 dinner plate sized hairy spiders are flung from it, dispersing everywhere.

This told me the green splodges on which my eagle was resting in fact represented a cactus branch.

One of the many impressive stalagmites here was shaped like a Saguaro cactus from the classic cowboy films.

A meandering stream feeds 3 large lakes and the course is planted with mature palms and attractive cactus and sub tropical gardens.

In order to cope with this, plants have very succulent leaves in which they conserve water, similar to a cactus plant.

Prickly pear is the popular name for species of Opuntia (see Cactus).

Native to North Africa and the Mediterranean area, the aloe vera plant resembles a cactus with its thick succulent leaves and pointed thorny edges.

This terminates in a long spike thickly studded with white blossoms. The grass-tree gives as distinct a character to an Australian picture as the agave and cactus do to the Mexican landscape.

Its flat-roofed Moorish houses are enclosed by gardens of cactus, dwarf palm, orange and other subtropical plants, interspersed with masses of rock.

But the strip of coast between the Apennines and the sea, known as the Riviera of Genoa, is not only extremely favourable to the growth of olives, but produces oranges and lemons in abundance, while even the aloe, the cactus and the palm flourish in many places.

At first sight a South African Euphorbia might be mistaken for a South American Cactus, an Aloe for an A gave, a Senecio for ivy, or a New Zealand Veronica for a European Salicornia.

To the southward, as the valleys become increasingly sandy and saline, even the sage-brush disappears, and little vegetation besides the cactus and the yucca is to be seen.

There is but one cactus indigenous to Natal; it is found hanging from perpendicular rocks in the midlands.

There are also many fruits found growing wild, like those of the cactus and various palms, and these are largely consumed.

The cochineal insect is found on the cactus which grows in abundance in the vicinity, and the town is known throughout Ecuador for its manufacture of boots and shoes, and for a cordage made from cabuya, the fibre of the agave plant.

Near the Cordillera and on its lower slopes a tall branched cactus is met with, and there are Salicornias and Salsolas near the coast.

As applied by Linnaeus, the name Cactus is almost conterminous with what is now regarded as the natural order Cactaceae, which embraces several modern genera.

Peireskia Aculeata, or Barbadoes gooseberry, the Cactus peireskia of Linnaeus, differs from the rest in having woody stems and leaf-bearing branches, the leaves being somewhat fleshy, but otherwise of the ordinary laminate character.

In the more arid regions the sage-brush and cactus make their appearance.

Poplars grow in the valleys, and the cactus and sage brush are common.

Conolophus subcristatus and Amblyrhynchus cristatus inhabit the Galapagos; the former feeds upon cactus and leaves, the latter is semi-marine, diving for the algae which grow below tide-marks.

Then, there are the mangrove-fringed coasts and the dripping wooded slopes where rare orchids thrive, and above these, on the inland side of the sierra, a treeless, sun-scorched table-land where only the cactus, yucca, and other coarse vegetation of the desert can thrive without irrigation.

There is but little natural vegetation to be seen - ragged yucca trees, many species of agave and cactus, scrubby mesquite bushes, sage bushes and occasional clumps of coarse grasses.

This struggle for existence has completely changed the habits of some plants, turning the palm and the cactus into climbers, and even some normal species into epiphytes.

An important product of the plateau and of the open districts of the tierras calientes, growing in the most arid places, is the " nopal " or prickly pear cactus (Opuntia ficus indica).

The simplest forms of these depict the objects signified by the name, as where Chapultepec or " grasshopper-hill " is represented by a grasshopper on a hill, or a stone with a cactus on it stands for Tenoch or " stonecactus," the founder of Tenochtitlan.