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Meaning of opuntiaceous | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Belonging to the family Opuntiaceae (now mostly subfamily Opuntioideae in Cactaceae).

not-comparable, obsolete, rare

Examples

“Early illustrations of opuntiaceous seeds: in his famous "Cactaceae of the Boundary" Engelmann (1859) provided the plate reproduced on the next page illustrating seeds and embryos of various North American (platy-) opuntias and cylindropuntias.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

opuscular or oraclelike oracular oraculous orad