cactaceous

[ kak-tey-shuhs ]

adjective

1. belonging to the Cactaceae, the cactus family of plants.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cactaceous¹

1850–55; < New Latin Cactace ( ae ) name of the family ( cactus, -aceae ) + -ous

Example Sentences

She is, however, much more orchidaceous than cactaceous.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their nostrils became offended with the fetid rank exhalations of the cactaceous and aloetic plants, and black gummy bushes, armed with many a horrid thorn, which struggled with each other for place and air with the wanton luxuriance and spontaneous growth which belongs to tropical plants.

From Project Gutenberg

Seeds.—Good fresh seeds of Cactaceous plants germinate in from two to four weeks after sowing, if placed in a warm house or on a hotbed with a temperature of 80 degs.

From Project Gutenberg

T is now about a century since some of the most beautiful of Cactaceous plants came into cultivation in this country, and amongst them was the plant now known as E. truncatum, but then called Cactus Epiphyllum; the name Cactus being used in a generic sense, and not, as now, merely as a general term for the Natural Order.

From Project Gutenberg

In these little cases—for which we are indebted to Mr. Boller, a dealer in Cactaceous plants—it is possible to grow a collection of tiny Cactuses for years, if only the operations of watering, potting, ventilating, and other matters connected with ordinary plant growing, are properly attended to.

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