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Definition of Prickly pear

1. Noun. Cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock.

2. Noun. Round or pear-shaped spiny fruit of any of various prickly pear cacti.

Definition of Prickly pear

1. Noun. Any of various spiny cacti of the genus ''Opuntia'', or the fruit, often edible, of such a plant. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prickly Pear

prickles pricklice pricklier prickliest prickliness pricklinesses prickling pricklouse prickly prickly-seeded spinach

prickly ash prickly custard apple prickly heat prickly lettuce prickly oak prickly pear (current term) prickly pear cactus prickly pears prickly pine prickly poppy

prickly shield fern prickmadam prickpunch prickpunches pricks prickshaft prickshafts pricksong pricksongs prickteaser

Literary usage of Prickly pear

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 (1910)
"The prickly-pear is most grateful for cultivation, responding with fifty tons to tin.- acre Vindicating the Prickly-Pear By DAVID GRIFFITHS Bureau of Plant ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... "prickly pear ", and lian, "place", or "site"), which was founded,as is generally admitted, about the year AD 1325. Until their settlement upon the lake ..."

3. The American Coast Pilot: Containing the Courses and Distances Between the by Edmund March Blunt (1822)
"To the NW by W. of the west point of Anguila, distance about 4 leagues, lie several small islands, the principal of which are Dog and prickly pear islands, ..."

4. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"In the south this bush is therefore known as toothache-tree and pepper-wood. Prickly Heat. See MILIARIA. prickly pear, a genus ..."

5. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"The three Minnesota species of prickly-pear are all of them wanderers from the southwestern ... The western prickly-pear produces a fleshy edible fruit, ..."

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