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Meaning of prickly pear | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ˌpɹɪkli ˈpɛː

Definitions

  1. An island of the British Virgin Islands.
  2. prickly pear, the fruit of the nopal cactus (Opuntia, especially Opuntia ficus-indica)
  3. Any of various spiny cacti of the genus Opuntia.
  4. nopal
  5. The fruit, often edible, of such a plant.
  6. a college singing group, wearing ornate clothes, called in the Americas estudiantina
  7. female equivalent of tuno
  8. third-person singular present indicative

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Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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