Usually means: Succulent plant, spines, arid adaptation.
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  1. cactus: Merriam-Webster
  2. cactus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cactus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cactus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cactus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cactus, cactus: Wordnik
  7. cactus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cactus: Wiktionary
  9. cactus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cactus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cactus: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cactus, cactus: Dictionary.com
  13. cactus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cactus: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Cactus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cactus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cactus: Rhymezone
  19. cactus, cactus, cactus, cactus (de), cactus (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cactus: FreeDictionary.org
  21. cactus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. cactus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. cactus: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. cactus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

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  1. cactus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cactus: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. CACTUS: Acronym Finder
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Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cactus, Cactus: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cactus, cactus: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cactus: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. cactus: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Cactus)

▸ noun:  (botany) Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate.
▸ noun:  Any succulent plant with a thick fleshy stem bearing spines but no leaves, such as euphorbs.
▸ adjective:  (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Non-functional, broken, exhausted, dead.
▸ noun:  A city in Texas.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in California.

Similar:
cereus, organ pipe cactus, snake cactus, leaf cactus, button cactus, crown cactus, cardon, melon cactus, cycas, hedgehog cactus, more...

Opposite:
non-cactus, succulent, plant, flora

Types:
saguaro, prickly pear, cholla, cane, pereskiopsis, cardboard, more...

Phrases:
saguaro cactus, barrel cactus, peyote cactus, Christmas cactus, cactus wren, more...

Adjectives:
prickly, giant, pear, small, spineless, nopal, large, tall, thorny, spiny, organ

Colors:
    green,     olive,     sage,     mint,     lime, more...


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Similar:
cereus, organ pipe cactus, snake cactus, leaf cactus, button cactus, crown cactus, cardon, melon cactus, cycas, hedgehog cactus, more...

Opposite:
non-cactus, succulent, plant, flora

Types:
saguaro, prickly pear, cholla, cane, pereskiopsis, cardboard, more...

Phrases:
saguaro cactus, barrel cactus, peyote cactus, Christmas cactus, cactus wren, cactus jack, cholla cactus, cactus family, hedgehog cactus, cactus wrens, cactus juice, cactus pear, pincushion cactus, organ cactus, more...

Adjectives:
prickly, giant, pear, small, spineless, nopal, large, tall, thorny, spiny, organ

Colors:
    green,     olive,     sage,     mint,     lime, more...



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