Crossword clues for cactus
cactus
- Desert flower
- Easter plant
- Desert bloomer
- Desert growth
- Prickly pear, e.g
- Southwestern plant
- Sonoran succulent
- Saguaro, e.g
- Prickly desert plant
- Desert succulent
- Symbol of Arizona
- Sticking plant
- Source of psychoactive agents
- Poker in a western?
- Plant that doesn't need a lot of water
- Plant seen in Road Runner cartoons
- Plant in Road Runner cartoons
- Plant in many Road Runner cartoons
- Peyote or saguaro
- Mescal, e.g
- It has points in the desert
- It contains points in Arizona
- It can be sticky in Arizona
- Desert prickly plant
- Big sticker
- Arizona bloomer
- __ wren (Arizona state bird)
- Prickly pear, e.g.
- Saguaro, for one
- Sticker
- It has points in Arizona
- Natural sticker
- Xerophyte
- Peyote is one
- Desert water source
- Bit of desert flora
- Low-maintenance potted plant
- Prickly one
- Any spiny succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World
- Saguaro, e.g.
- Mescal or prickly pear
- Prickly plant
- Old-man ___, Mexican plant
- Mescal is one
- Succulent plant of arid regions
- Spiny plant
- Spiny desert plant
- Rat briefly cuts supply in plant
- Prickly succulent
- Part of magic act uses plant
- Desert plant around Connecticut (America)
- Desert plant
- Desert sight
- Desert flora sight, perhaps
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cactus \Cac"tus\, n.; pl. E. Cactuses, Cacti (-t[=i]). [L., a kind of cactus, Gr. ??????.] (Bot.) Any plant of the order Cactac[ae], as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America.
Cactus wren (Zo["o]l.), an American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of several species.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Latin cactus "cardoon," from Greek kaktos, name of a type of prickly plant of Sicily (the Spanish artichoke), perhaps of pre-Hellenic origin. Modern meaning is 18c., because Linnaeus gave the name to a group of plants he thought were related to this but are not.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A city in Texas. 2 An unincorporated community in California.
WordNet
n. any spiny succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World
[also: cacti (pl)]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 820
Land area (2000): 2.040434 sq. miles (5.284699 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.040434 sq. miles (5.284699 sq. km)
FIPS code: 11692
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 36.046124 N, 102.002251 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wikipedia
CACTUS (Converted Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope Using Solar-2) was a ground based Air Cherenkov Telescope (ACT) located outside Daggett, California, near Barstow. It was originally a solar power plant called Solar Two, but was converted to an observatory starting in 2001. The first astronomical observations started in the fall of 2004. However, the facility had its last observing runs in November 2005 as funds for observational operations from the National Science Foundation were no longer available. The facility was operated by the University of California, Davis but owned by Southern California Edison. It was demolished in 2009.
"Cactus" is a song by the American alternative rock band Pixies, and is the eighth track on their 1988 album Surfer Rosa. It was written and sung by the band's frontman Black Francis and produced by Steve Albini.
Cactus is an American hard rock band, formed in 1969.
A cactus (plural cacti) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae.
Cactus may also refer to:
Cactus ( Bengali: ক্যাকটাস) is an Indian Bengali rock band from Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Since inception they have recorded four full-length studio albums and have performed over 2500 concerts across India & abroad.
Cactus is a 2008 Australian mystery- thriller film, it is the directing debut for Jasmine Yuen-Carrucan.
Cactus ( Persian :کاکتوس) is a 1998 Iranian satirical TV series directed by Mohammad Reza Honarmand. Various actors played in the series including Fathali Oveisi, Khosrow Shakibai, Reza Fieze Norouzi, Rasool Najafian, Soroosh Sehhat and Zohreh Mojabi. Cactus was aired in three parts between 1998 to 2002.
IRIB's Channel 1 broadcast the TV series.
Cactus is a 1986 Australian drama film directed by Paul Cox and starring Isabelle Huppert.
Cactus is the name of a Luxembourg supermarket business. It is one of Luxembourg’s leading family-run businesses, known for food and general "quality of life" stores of several sizes using the brands Cactus, Supercactus, Cactus marché (Cactus Market) and CactusShoppi. The group also operates speciality shops selling items such as flowers or CDs. As of 1 January 2011, Cactus is Luxembourg's third largest employer.
The logo of the company is the green silhouette of a three fingered cactus: sometimes the colours are reversed, resulting in a white cactus silhouette on a green background.
Cactus was a UK record label that found most of its success with music from the reggae genre in the mid 1970s.
A subsidiary of Creole Records, Cactus released predominantly reggae songs from artists such Rupie Edwards, I-Roy, Pluto, John Holt and Judge Dread. The label had acquired the rights to music from Pyramid Records and had UK chart success with re-releases of Desmond Dekker's " Israelites" and with Dekker's, " Sing a Little Song".
Cactus is a brand owned by Harvest One Limited, a Hong Kong company specialized in the design and engineering of wireless lighting equipment including wireless flash triggers, wireless flashes, portable softboxes and studio umbrellas. Its headquarter is in Fo Tan, Hong Kong.
In 2014, Cactus released the world's first and only cross-brand wireless flash transceiver, Cactus V6, that can simultaneously remote control power of Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic and Pentax flashes on any camera.
Usage examples of "cactus".
The fruits are citrus, dates, melons, apricots, figs, almonds, and cactus fruit.
The Sahara, the landmark, the Americana and the ominous Thunderbird -- a cluster of grey rectangles in the distance, rising out of the cactus.
Vast, undulating plains, sometimes sparsely covered with bunchgrass, but for the most part dry and sandy with cactus and mesquite thrusting skyward.
Although it was fall in the land I came from, Miller Damon was lush with blooming vines and flowering cactuses and ivies with shiny leaves that climbed the sandstone-colored bricks of the low buildings with their terra-cotta roofs.
Wherever the cactus roots or flash-flood washes left room, you saw thin chaparral, or stickerbush, from creosote and catclaw to eight- or ten-foot whitebark and paloverde.
The foothills loomed up here, too -- more lava formations, huge rocks balanced on top of each other and strewn along slopes that also bore catclaw, cholla, organ-pipe cactus abloom with pink and white and lavender flowers.
The scrub of southern Texas had given way to cacti, which had given way to the occasional oasis in Arizona, which had given way to the pines and oaks of California, which turned into curbs and streets.
The Cactus deals had been fine but required Enron to wander around, tin cup in hand, scaring up investors.
Cacti with spiny arms and flowers like dracaena rose up periodically, as did the huge robotic forms of power-line towers.
When the formidable cactus became King of its own mountain, the Hanswurst, the Kesperle and the Emeraldina all shrugged, threw away their weapons and went off amicably arm in arm.
These little blighters are so successful, one species has been introduced from South America to effectively control Harrisia cactus in Queensland.
The cactus people were jabbering in their harsh pidgin, arguing over who was to go in.
There were kitschy oil paintings of long-horned steer and cacti over the empty tables.
Yagharek stopped, thinking of that panic-stricken scene on the top of the cactacae sun-temple, of the helmetless cactus elders, the brave, idiot soldiers charging up, lucky enough to have missed the moths, saving themselves from pointless death.
The two Mexican ponies were as used to the taste of skinned-out cactus as the Papago mules.