Cactus is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CACTUS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a succulent plant of the family Cactaceae, with thick fleshy stems, usually spiny and without leaves
• a succulent plant with a thick fleshy stem which typically bears spines, lacks leaves, and has brilliantly coloured flowers. Cacti are native to arid regions of the New World and are cultivated elsewhere, especially as pot plants.
• fleshy desert plant with spines but no leaves
• Any plant of the order Cactacae, 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.
• any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a plant native to arid regions

Words related to CACTUS

cactaceous16 cacti9 cactuses12

Words that contain CACTUS

cactuses12 zygocactus27 zygocactuses29

How to use CACTUS in a sentence

• Similarly if a cactus shows no signs of growth, stop the watering.
• A very small piece of the cactus plant should be stuck with cellotape to the plant that needs grafting.
• The occasional giant cactus in the open beyond the village outskirts ceased to be spectral.
• It was a flat region with a poor growth of mesquite and prickly-pear cactus.
• Take care! Here are bunches of cactus with prickly leaves.
• They stand in yards, which are enclosed by fences of organ-pipe cactus.
• It was still early when we started through the hot, sandy, flat land, covered with gigantic cactus trees, which swarmed with little birds of many beautiful kinds.
• The Americans were on a flat plain, unprotected by anything larger than bunches of cactus or sage brush.
• He happened to go down on a big prickly cactus, but he never stirred, cactus or no cactus.
• Of this desert type, then, the cactus is the furthest possible term.
• Nucky, sitting with his face pressed against the window, saw only vague forms of cactus and evergreens through the sleet which, as the grade rose steadily, changed to snow.
• No true cactus grows truly wild anywhere on earth except in America.
• As they neared the top the broken surface became prickly with cactus and Rhoda winced with misery as the thorns pierced and tore her flesh.
• Rhoda tramped bravely, up and up, from cactus to bear grass, from bear grass to stunted cedar, from cedar to pines that at last rose triumphant at the crest of a great ridge.
• But for the cactus and prickly pear which lined the lanes we might have been riding leisurely over an English countryside.
• We landed in Cactus, ready and anxious to be respectable.
• Speaking generally, nothing grows on a great part of this desert but cactus, of which I am told there are some 200 varieties, from the dwarf kind to trees 40 feet high.
• Far away myriads of cactus plants showed like a troop of distorted horsemen.
• Leaving the river, we set out across a not entirely barren plain, for there was much sage-brush, and several varieties of cactus.
• But these are but tender blossoms from a spiked, poisonous stalk, like the flowers of the cactus.

Similar words containing CACTU without suffix s

cactuses12 zygocactus27 zygocactuses29

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