Prickly-pear

  • 1Prickly Pear — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Prickly Pear Island, en Antigua (Antigua y Barbuda), es una isla de North Sound, cercana a la costa de Virgin Gorda. Perteneciente al Archipiélago de Anguila, forma parte del sistema de parques de las Islas Vírgenes… …

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  • 2Prickly pear — Prickly Prick ly, a. Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. [1913 Webster] {Prickly heat} (Med.), a noncontagious cutaneous eruption of red pimples, attended with intense itching and tingling of the …

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  • 3prickly pear — prickly pears N COUNT A prickly pear is a kind of cactus that has round fruit with prickles on. The fruit, which you can eat, is also called a prickly pear …

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  • 4prickly pear — n [U and C] a type of ↑cactus that has yellow flowers and red fruit. The fruit is also called a prickly pear …

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  • 5prickly pear — ► NOUN ▪ a cactus with flattened, jointed stems which produces prickly, pear shaped fruits …

    English terms dictionary

  • 6prickly pear — ☆ prickly pear n. 1. a) any of various cactuses (genus Opuntia) having large, flat, oval stem joints and edible fruits: many species have barbed spines b) the pear shaped fruit of such a plant 2. NOPAL …

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  • 7prickly pear — noun count a plant that grows in the desert, with a fruit that is covered with sharp needles, or the fruit of this plant …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 8prickly pear — shaped fruit of a kind of cactus …

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  • 9prickly-pear — figavaisė opuncija statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Kaktusinių šeimos daržovinis, dekoratyvinis, maistinis, pašarinis, vaisinis, vaistinis augalas (Opuntia ficus indica), paplitęs Meksikoje ir Šiaurės Amerikoje. atitikmenys: lot. Cactus… …

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  • 10prickly pear — 1. any of numerous cacti of the genus Opuntia, having flattened, usually spiny stem joints, yellow, orange, or reddish flowers, and ovoid, often edible fruit. 2. the usually prickly fruit of such a cactus. [1605 15] * * * Any of a group of flat… …

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