prickly pear cactus

Questions about prickly pear cactus

What does prickly pear cactus mean?

prickly pear cactus means "cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock".

What is another word for prickly pear cactus?

Close synonyms include prickly pear. 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 prickly pear cactus a common word?

prickly pear cactus 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.