prickly pear

prickly pear

n.1. Any of various opuntias having bristly, flattened stem segments, often colorful flowers, and ovoid prickly fruit.2. The edible fruit of certain of these cactuses.

prickly pear

n 1. (Plants) any of various tropical cacti of the genus Opuntia, having flattened or cylindrical spiny joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species. See also cholla, nopal² 2. (Plants) the fruit of any of these plants

prick′ly pear′

n. 1. any of numerous cacti of the genus Opuntia, having flattened, usu. spiny stem joints, yellow, orange, or reddish flowers, and ovoid, often edible fruit. 2. the usu. prickly fruit of such a cactus. [1605–15]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	prickly pear - cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stockprickly pear cactusprickly pear - round or pear-shaped spiny fruit of any of various prickly pear cacticactus - any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spinesgenus Opuntia, Opuntia - large genus of cactuses native to America: prickly pearsnopal, Opuntia lindheimeri - cactus having yellow flowers and purple fruitsOpuntia tuna, tuna - tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica
	2.	prickly pear - round or pear-shaped spiny fruit of any of various prickly pear cactiedible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet fleshprickly pear, prickly pear cactus - cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock

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