jointed cactus
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crab cactus — noun South American jointed cactus with usually red flowers; often cultivated as a houseplant; sometimes classified as genus Schlumbergera • Syn: ↑Thanksgiving cactus, ↑Zygocactus truncatus, ↑Schlumbergera truncatus • Hypernyms: ↑cactus • Member… … Useful english dictionary
Thanksgiving cactus — noun South American jointed cactus with usually red flowers; often cultivated as a houseplant; sometimes classified as genus Schlumbergera • Syn: ↑crab cactus, ↑Zygocactus truncatus, ↑Schlumbergera truncatus • Hypernyms: ↑cactus • Member Holonyms … Useful english dictionary
Christmas cactus — noun Etymology: from its annual blooming around Christmastime Date: circa 1900 a branching Brazilian cactus (Schlumbergera bridgesii syn. S. buckleyi) having flat jointed stems with scalloped margins and showy usually red, pink, white, violet, or … New Collegiate Dictionary
orchid cactus — noun any cactus of the genus Epiphyllum having flattened jointed irregularly branching stems and showy tubular flowers • Syn: ↑epiphyllum • Hypernyms: ↑cactus • Member Holonyms: ↑genus Epiphyllum * * * noun : a cactus of the genus … Useful english dictionary
Christmas cactus — n. a common houseplant (Schlumbergera bridgesii) with flat, jointed, fleshy stems and red flowers that bloom around Christmas; crab cactus … English World dictionary
Christmas cactus — noun epiphytic cactus of Brazilian ancestry widely cultivated as a houseplant having jointed flat segments and usually rose purple flowers that bloom in winter • Syn: ↑Schlumbergera buckleyi, ↑Schlumbergera baridgesii • Hypernyms: ↑cactus •… … Useful english dictionary
Opuntia aurantiaca — Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked) … Wikipedia
cholla — /chohl yah, yeuh/; Sp. /chaw yah/, n., pl. chollas /chohl yahz, yeuhz/; Sp. /chaw yahs/. any of several spiny treelike cacti belonging to the genus Opuntia, esp. O. fulgida of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having knobby outgrowths and yellow… … Universalium
Schlumbergera truncatus — noun South American jointed cactus with usually red flowers; often cultivated as a houseplant; sometimes classified as genus Schlumbergera • Syn: ↑crab cactus, ↑Thanksgiving cactus, ↑Zygocactus truncatus • Hypernyms: ↑cactus • Member Holonyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Zygocactus truncatus — noun South American jointed cactus with usually red flowers; often cultivated as a houseplant; sometimes classified as genus Schlumbergera • Syn: ↑crab cactus, ↑Thanksgiving cactus, ↑Schlumbergera truncatus • Hypernyms: ↑cactus • Member Holonyms … Useful english dictionary
