Similar words: prickly, prickly heat, prickle, sickly, quickly, thickly, trickle, trickling. Meaning: n. 1. cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock 2. round or pear-shaped spiny fruit of any of various prickly pear cacti.
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1 Heading up an orange-dirt trail, she passes prickly pear cactus and yucca.
2 Prickly pear cacti fill the foreground and saguaros cover the distant hills in Arizona's Saguaro National Park.
3 The nopal (or prickly pear) cactus, Opuntia ficus-indica, is native to the United States and grown widely on the African continent(sentencedict.com), Mexico and other developing countries.
4 Scientists have known that prickly pear cleans water but their understanding of the mechanism was poor.
5 It takes in the dried-up soil, the prickly pear, the palm tree and the distant mountain, but it always misses the peasant hoeing at his patch.
6 The ground was rocky, uneven, and hard . Prickly pear cactuses were everywhere.
7 Dance off that burnt passion fruit tart with fresh mango and prickly pear to get a head start on 2001 resolutions.
8 Did Zenaida burn up, poisoned herself by the robe of prickly pear?
9 When they thinned out he headed for the cherry blossoms, then magnolia, chinaberry, pecan, walnut and prickly pear.
10 We could see grassy tracks winding through the fields between stone walls and hedges of prickly pear.
11 He was an old countryman with a betel-ravaged mouth,(www.Sentencedict.com) the cancerous tongue sticking helplessly out like a crimson prickly pear.
12 With an Epilady you don't end up with a prickly pear.
13 One of the minute barbed hairs or bristles on certain plants, such as the prickly pear.
14 Any of several red scale insects of the family Dactylopiidae that feed on cacti, especially the prickly pear, and range from the southwest United States to Central America.
15 asking for a chocolate butterscotch martini, or an apple martini, lemon drop martini or prickly pear martini?
16 In the distance to the east, our cliff top fanned out into an arid square mile of Indian grass, prickly pear, and more sage.
17 These are the real culprits, because they are the ones who make labour such a prickly pear in industry today.
18 The team obtained the date of 9260 years ago for the coprolite by radiocarbon dating one of the prickly pear seeds inside.
19 Can you imagine James Bond asking for a chocolate butterscotch martini, or an apple martini, lemon drop martini or prickly pear martini?
20 Can you imagine James Bond asking for a chocolate butterscotch martini, or an apple martini, lemon drop martini or prickly pear martini?Unlikely for the suave superspy.
21 The ancient fecal material, or coprolite, was littered with seared prickly pear seeds—a food prepared and cooked by humans—and flecked with small bones from fish, birds, and rodents.