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nopal


noun

  1. any of several cacti of the genus Nopalea, resembling the prickly pear.
  2. the fruit of such a cactus, or of a similar cactus, as the prickly pear.

noun

  1. any of various cactuses of the genus Nopalea, esp the red-flowered N. cochinellifera, which is a host plant of the cochineal insect
  2. a cactus, Opuntia lindheimeri, having yellow flowers and purple fruitsSee also prickly pear

n.Mexican cactus, from American Spanish, from Nahuatl nopalli.

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