prickly pear

Meaning

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

Synonyms

prickly pear cactus

barbary fig

Indian fig

mission cactus

edible tree cactus

nopal

Indian fig opuntia

tuna

Opuntia ficus indica

Translations

fico d’india

Kaktusfeige

chumbera

figuier de Barbarie

fico d'India

nopal

figue de Barbarie

fico d’India

tuna

figueira-da-Índia

higo chumbo

figo-da-Índia

ficodindia

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌpɹɪkli ˈpɛː/

Etymology

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