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Meaning of Cactus | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Standard
ˈkæktəs

Definitions

  1. A city in Texas.
  2. Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate.
  3. An unincorporated community in California.
  4. Any succulent plant with a thick fleshy stem bearing spines but no leaves, such as euphorbs.

Equivalents

العربية الصبّار صبار
Azərbaycanca kaktus
Български кактус
Bosanski ćato oro
Català cactus
Čeština kaktus
Cymraeg cactws
Dansk kaktus
Deutsch Kaktus
Ελληνικά κάκτος
Esperanto kakto
Español cacto cactus
Suomi kaktus
Français Cactus
Galego cacto
ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi pānini
עברית צבר קקטוס
हिन्दी नागफनी
Hrvatski ćato oro
Magyar kaktusz
Հայերեն կակտուս
Bahasa Indonesia kaktus
Íslenska kaktus
Italiano cactus
ქართული კაქტუსი
한국어 선인장
Lietuvių kaktusas
Latviešu kaktuss
Bahasa Melayu kaktus
Malti kaktus
Nederlands cactus
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਥੋਹਰ
Polski kaktus
Português cacto cáctus cato
Русский кактус
Slovenčina kaktus
Српски ćato oro
Svenska kaktus
தமிழ் கள்ளி
Tagalog kakto kaktus
Українська кактус
Tiếng Việt xương rồng
Yorùbá oro

Examples

“On the mountains a few junipers and piñons are found, and cactuses, agave, and yuccas, low, fleshy plants with bayonets and thorns.”
“This was another experimental garden started under Dr. Berry as a ‘Nopalry’ or place for the rearing of the cochineal insect on cacti, which however, became a sort of experimental garden where exotic plants were received as they arrived in the Port of Madras and were nursed and looked after until they could be despatched to the interior stations.”
“Three years later, the unwatered cactus was still about two feet tall, a dark green color. The watered cactus was a paler green, its trunk visibly swollen with moisture. It had grown to be over five feet tall.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
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