NOUN
- round or pear-shaped spiny fruit of any of various prickly pear cacti
- cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock
How To Use prickly pear In A Sentence
- At the May state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, prickly pear cactus showed up in vermeil wine coolers, and Dowling also tucked a few among the in the centerpieces of fuchsia roses and Cattleya orchids. White House florist shows Obamas' relaxed style
- We kept driving, past cedar thickets and a pasture studded with blooming prickly pear cactus.
- The fruit from the prickly pear - a cross between kiwi fruit and a ripe pear - is wonderful.
- Examples of these endemic cacti are the lava cactus (Brachycereus nesioticus) and prickly pear cacti (Opuntia echios and O. helleri). Galápagos Islands xeric scrub
- Even though a prickly pear may be visibly spineless, the glochids on paddles and fruits remain just as nasty.
- The extinct mammoths ate mainly grasses, sedges, and other riparian plants, salt bush, prickly pear, and even some needles of blue spruce.
- One of the newer hangover cures on the block, people have in fact been eating prickly pear cactus for hundreds of years. The Sun
- Sideoats grama, buffalo grass, sagebrush, yucca and prickly pear cactus are also common on the canyon floor and walls.
- One of the newer hangover cures on the block, people have in fact been eating prickly pear cactus for hundreds of years. The Sun
- They lead into pine forests as well as impressive stands of coastal sage scrub and chaparral communities notable for Mojave yuccas, prickly pear, and agaves.
