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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024bis•na•ga (bis nä′gə),USA pronunciation n. - Plant Biologyany of several thorny cactuses of the genera Echinocactus, Ferocactus, and Astrophytum of the southwestern U.S.
Also, biznaga. - Nahuatl huitznāhuac, equivalent. to huitz(tli) thorn + -nāhua- vicinity + -c(o) locative suffix
- Mexican Spanish biznaga, (probably by association with biznaga parsnip) replacing earlier vitznauac
- 1835–45, American.
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