Crossword clues for cactuses
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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of cactus English)
Usage examples of "cactuses".
They might only be pretending to have a conversation about the cactuses while they actually crept toward the bunkroom door.
There were wrens, and owls not much bigger than the wrens, living in holes gouged in the cactuses, and always a scavenger vulture or two soaring in circles high above me.
I grant that even there, in the autumn, the nopali cactus puts forth its sweet red tonaltin fruits, and the gigantic quinametl cactus offers sweet purplish pitaaya fruits at the ends of its uplifted arms, but most of the desert cactuses grow only spikes and spines and hooks and barbs.
Also, each night, I cut down one of the tall, straight-trunked cactuses and laid it with its ends propped on rocks so that it sagged in the middle.
So it is only during those twenty or so days of rain that the desert becomes briefly colorful, with flowers on the cactuses and the otherwise sere scrub bushes.
On either side were fantastically misshapen organ-pipe cactuses with great thick barrel arms that seemed to point every which way.
The simplicity of the cactuses and their lack of symmetry like the bird with the mismatched wings gave them a surreal aspect that hurt his head.
Now these violent green cactuses, like something you'd see in an energetic first grader's picture.
And now finally, against the last dirty pink ribbon of sunset fringing the west, he made out the wavery black line of squat trees and towering cactuses that marked the beginning of the great Salt Marsh.
He could make out individual thorn trees and cactuses and thickets of giant sea-grass outlined against the now utterly bled west.
Lovely spot it must be: the garden of the world, big lazy leaves to float about on, cactuses, flowery meads, snaky lianas they call them.
The myrtles, geraniums, and cactuses packed around her were fresh and green, and at such a leafless season they invested the whole concern of horses, waggon, furniture, and girl with a peculiar vernal charm.