meaning of cactus
1. Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America.
2. any spiny succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World
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