Nopal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for NOPAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a Central American cactus plant, on which the cochineal insect feeds, and from which it is collected
• a cactus which is a major food plant of the bugs from which cochineal is obtained.
• the edible fleshy pads of the nopal cactus, used in Mexican cuisine.
• type of cactus
• A cactaceous plant (Nopalea cochinellifera), originally Mexican, on which the cochineal insect feeds, and from which it is collected. The name is sometimes given to other species of Cactaceae.
• cactus having yellow flowers and purple fruits
• any of several cacti of the genus Nopalea resembling prickly pears
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a cactus of Mexico and Central America

Words related to NOPAL

nopales9 nopals8

Words that contain NOPAL

nopals8 nopales9 nopalito10 nopalitos11

How to use NOPAL in a sentence

• The success with which the cultivation of the nopal and the breeding of the insect which produces cochineal has been practised at Cadiz, and thence at Malta, is well known.
• Illness may also result from small stones, or the spine of the nopal placed in the body by the same agency.
• In the central part of the country they use a spear made of a thin reed and tipped with thorns of the nopal.
• The only exception I noticed was that the fiat, leaf-like joints of the nopal cactus shrivelled up a little on the surface, but the fleshy inside seemed as juicy as ever.
• Octavia Beaupree, nee Van Dresser, stepped from the train at Nopal, her manner lost, for the moment, some of that easy certitude which had always marked her movements.

Similar words containing NOP without suffix al

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