old man cactus
/ˌəʊl(d) ˈman ˌkaktəs/noun
A Mexican cactus, Cephalocereus senilis, covered with long grey hairs.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal. From old man + cactus, with allusion to its long grey hairs.
- believer
- believer's baptism
- believingly
- belight
- be light on
- be light on one's feet
- belike
- be like getting blood out of (or from) a stone (also turnip)
- be like Piccadilly Circus
- be (like) putty in someone's hands
- belimb
- belime
- Belisha beacon
- belitter
- belittle
- belittlement
- belittler
- belittlingly
- Belitung
- be (living) on borrowed time
- Belizan
- Belize
- Belizean
- Belize City
- Belizian