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Definition of Ocotillo
1. Noun. Desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers.
Generic synonyms: Candlewood
Group relationships: Fouquieria, Genus Fouquieria
Definition of Ocotillo
1. Noun. Any of various succulent plants unrelated to the cactus, in the genus Fouquieria, living in Central America or the southwest United States. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ocotillo
1. a Mexican shrub [n -LOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ocotillo
Literary usage of Ocotillo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"Fig. 6. Details of the Sotol-ocotillo association. Yuccas and Cacti may be
distinguished. The Sotol, ocotillo and various other ..."
2. Stoddart's Encyclopaedia Americana: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by American supplement, Encyclopaedia britannica (1886)
"... ocotillo " pci'.es of the Mexicans. Out of these with strips of ra\»hide they
make admirable fences; ..."
3. Bibliography of North American Geology for 1914 with Subject Index by John Milton Nickles (1915)
"No ore has been shipped from the prospects near ocotillo, ... The road beyond
the spring to ocotillo and to other prospects in the northern part of the ..."
4. Guayule (Parthenium Argentatum Gray): A Rubber-Plant of the Chihuahuan Desert by Francis Ernest Lloyd (1911)
"They are both taller than guayule. but the shade cast by them is small in amount,
and less is cast by the ocotillo than by the gobernadora. ..."
5. The Physiology of Stomata by Francis Ernest Lloyd (1908)
"The material which has been used has been obtained chiefly from two plants, the
ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens, plates 1 and 2) and a showy desert verbena ..."
6. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1905)
"The siphon ended in a capillary tube, so that the flow of water was small and,
while it ran down the ocotillo stem at times, it did not reach the ground in ..."
7. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (1912)
"Should it develop that the same is true of the ocotillo, the inference would then
be clear. It was my purpose in the summer of 1911 to make the ..."
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