单词 | niggerhead cactus |
释义 | > as lemmasniggerhead cactus b. U.S. Any of various spherical spiny cacti belonging to the genera Ferocactus and Echinocactus. Also niggerhead cactus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cactus and allies > [noun] > other cacti hedgehog thistle1597 Opuntia1601 mescal1709 Barbados gooseberry1756 night-flowering cereus1789 vygebosch1795 night-blooming cereus1799 rhipsalis1819 pigface1830 window plant1838 old man cactus1845 cholla1846 fish-hook cactus1846 spleenwort1846 epiphyllum1858 old man's head1858 rainbow cactus1860 green snake1864 torchwood1866 queen of the night1870 vingerpol1875 nipple cactus1876 niggerhead1877 rat's tail cactus1878 rat-tail cactus1878 Christmas cactus1880 barrel cactus1881 peyote1885 mistletoe cactus1889 schlumbergera1898 pincushion1940 opuntioid1944 1877 H. C. Hodge Arizona 244 The kind [of cactus] commonly called the nigger head is round, of the size of a cabbage, and covered with large, crooked, catlike thorns. 1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 984 The ‘nigger-head’ or ‘barrel’ cactus. 1940 E. C. Jaeger Calif. Deserts (rev. ed.) 181 Closely allied to this is the Mohavean niggerhead. 1966 E. Y. Dawson Cacti of Calif. 51 (heading) Nigger Heads (Echinocactus polycephalus). 1980 Maledicta 1979 3 170 Niggerhead cactus, Bisnaga cactus. < as lemmas |
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