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prickly pear
noun
- any of numerous cacti of the genus Opuntia, having flattened, usually spiny stem joints, yellow, orange, or reddish flowers, and ovoid, often edible fruit.
- the usually prickly fruit of such a cactus.
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Example Sentences
The mask is really a thick, water-based overnight cream, made with moisturizing squalene, redness-reducing prickly pear, and maqui berries, which the company says support cell regeneration.
A research botanist and curator of living collections at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, he’s been studying prickly pears and chollas, which are infamous for their barbed spines, for decades.
The trick served him well again several months ago when he attended a conference and one the other attendees ordered prickly pears for lunch.
Desert tortoises in the Arizona desert like prickly pear cactuses, mallows, curly mesquite grass, and more.
Yes, you’ll find saguaro in the Grand Canyon State, and vistas sprinkled with prickly pear—but you’ll also find forested mineral-spring oases, snow-topped peaks, and lush lakes and rivers.
It bears beautiful yellow blossoms in summer, after which comes the fruit, a prickly pear, not good to eat.
Near to the kopje there was a garden surrounded by low trees and a hedge of prickly pear.
The little cottage was shut in on one side by a hedge of aloes and prickly pear and on the other by high cliffs and precipices.
There was a prickly pear on top, the thorns of which caught him so that at first he could not extricate himself.
There are no walls, but great hedges of aloe and prickly pear serve as a sterner landmark.
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