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Definition of Crab cactus

1. Noun. South American jointed cactus with usually red flowers; often cultivated as a houseplant; sometimes classified as genus Schlumbergera.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crab Cactus

Literary usage of Crab cactus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1915)
"A splendid specimen of the crab cactus. (Trailed onto an upright stiff-stemmed cereus (Editorial section continued on alternate pages) Any good catalogue ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"crab cactus. CHRISTMAS CACTUS. Fig. 765. Stems much branched and hanging in large bunches from the trees : joints obovate to oblong, with strongly truncate ..."

3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"crab cactus. CHRISTMAS CACTUS. Fig. 4055. Sts. much branched and hanging in large bunches from the trees; joints obovate to oblong, with strongly truncate ..."

4. Letters from New York by Lydia Maria Francis Child (1845)
"But yesterday, I saw a plant called the crab cactus, most singularly like the animal from which it takes its name. My companion said it was ' a strange ..."

5. Letters from New York by Lydia Maria Francis Child (1844)
"But yesterday, I saw a plant called the crab cactus, most singularly like the animal from which ..."

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