WordNet
n. cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock [syn: prickly pear]
Usage examples of "prickly pear cactus".
He pinched off some yellow rabbitbrush flowers and tossed them into the air just to be sure of the slight wind, then squatted again at the edge of a small open area populated by two medium-sized anthills and a cluster of prickly pear cactus.
They got out on wide alkali flats, dotted with sagebrush and prickly pear cactus.
Out of the sack tumbled some hideous, unidentifiable roots and bulbs, bundles of herbs, and several ears of prickly pear cactus.
He walked over to the man, looked at the foot and realized Snake Island had prickly pear cactus.
Apart from them, two men had stomach pains - brought on, according to an unsympathetic Aitken, by a surfeit of roast beef - while two of Kenton's men were almost crippled by the hairlike spines of prickly pear cactus which had penetrated the skin of their legs and festered overnight.
The recognizable stutter of a MAC-10 swung his attention to the television installed upon a stand of bricks inside the cold fireplace, the flanks of the sacred screen guarded by a menacing duo of prickly pear cactus plants.
Scrambling down through the zig-zag of creosoted trestle timbers, he finally crouched behind a concealing clump of prickly pear cactus which opened on a view of his car, the parked Jaguar, the fence and the stretch of grassland extending out to the cliff edge.
He went the way the rabbit had, slipping and slithering down the slope, tearing his jeans and his hands on prickly pear cactus.
Mesquite and prickly pear cactus ten feet high grew between the sites.