prickly pear

Significado (Inglés)

  1. Any of various spiny cacti of the genus Opuntia.
  2. The fruit, often edible, of such a plant.

Sinónimos

barbary fig

mission cactus

edible tree cactus

Indian fig opuntia

Opuntia ficus indica

Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/ˌpɹɪkli ˈpɛː/
Etimoloxía (Inglés)

From prickly + pear, from the nature of the plant's fruit, which, like the cactus it grows on, has spines on its surface.

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