vine cactus

What does vine cactus mean?

vine cactus means "desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers".

What is another word for vine cactus?

Close synonyms include ocotillo, coachwhip, Jacob's staff, Fouquieria splendens. 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 vine cactus a common word?

vine 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for vine cactus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.