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Definition of Melocactus
1. Noun. Genus of strongly ribbed globose or spheroid cacti of tropical South and Central America and the Caribbean.
Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Cactaceae, Cactus Family, Family Cactaceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melocactus
Literary usage of Melocactus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose (1922)
"melocactus pyramidalis compressus Suringar in JV Suringar, Verh. Kon. Akad.
Wetensch. ... melocactus microcephalus olivascens JV Suringar, Verh. Kon. Akad. ..."
2. Cactaceous Plants: Their History and Culture by Lewis Castle (1884)
"The majority of globular sterna like the melocactus, with more or less strongly
marked ridges from the summit to the base, usually slightly ..."
3. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1845)
"This melocactus is simply slit open with an hoe or spade, when the sheep eagerly
eat it, carefully avoiding the spines. My man Edward, having no shoes, ..."
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