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Barrel cactus   /bˈærəl kˈæktəs/   Listen
Barrel cactus

noun
1.
A cactus of the genus Ferocactus: unbranched barrel-shaped cactus having deep ribs with numerous spines and usually large funnel-shaped flowers followed by dry fruits.
2.
Any cactus of the genus Echinocactus; strongly ribbed and very spiny; southwestern United States to Brazil.  Synonym: echinocactus.



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... ocotillo, waving its long, slender wands from the ground-centre, each green with its myriad little lance-shaped leaves, and bursting at the end into a scarlet flame of blossoms dazzling in the burning sunlight. Near by springs up the Barrel cactus, a forbidding column no one dares touch. A little farther is the "yant" of the Pai Ute, with leaves fringed with teeth like its kind, the Agaves. This is a source of food for the native, who roasts the asparagus-like tip starting up in the spring, and he also takes the whole head, and, trimming ...
— The Romance of the Colorado River • Frederick S. Dellenbaugh


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