Usually means: Edible cactus fruit, spiny exterior.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. prickly pear: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prickly pear: Merriam-Webster
  3. prickly pear: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prickly pear: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prickly pear: Collins English Dictionary
  6. prickly pear: Vocabulary.com
  7. prickly-pear, prickly pear: Wordnik
  8. prickly pear: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. prickly pear: Wiktionary
  10. prickly pear: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Prickly pear, prickly pear: Dictionary.com
  12. Prickly Pear (British Virgin Islands), Prickly pear: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. prickly pear: Rhymezone
  14. prickly pear: FreeDictionary.org
  15. prickly pear: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. prickly pear, pear, prickly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prickly pear, pear, prickly: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prickly pear: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prickly pear: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See prickly_pears as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Prickly Pear)

noun:  Any of various spiny cacti of the genus Opuntia.
noun:  The fruit, often edible, of such a plant.
noun:  An island in the British Virgin Islands.

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