mammillaria plumosa

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   a low tuberculate cactus with white feathery spines; northeastern Mexico

   Synonymsfeather ball

   Broadercactus

Questions about mammillaria plumosa

What does mammillaria plumosa mean?

mammillaria plumosa means "a low tuberculate cactus with white feathery spines; northeastern Mexico".

What is another word for mammillaria plumosa?

Close synonyms include feather ball. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mammillaria plumosa a common word?

mammillaria plumosa is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.