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CACTUS FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cactus family mean? 

CACTUS FAMILY (noun)
  The noun CACTUS FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. constituting the order Opuntialesplay

  Familiarity information: CACTUS FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.


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CACTUS FAMILY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Constituting the order Opuntiales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cactaceae; cactus family; family Cactaceae

Hypernyms ("cactus family" is a kind of...):

caryophylloid dicot family (family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "cactus family"):

genus Hatiora; Hatiora (small genus of South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti)

genus Zygocactus; Zygocactus (small genus of Brazilian cacti having flat fleshy usually branched joints and showy red or pink flowers followed by red fleshy fruits)

genus Selenicereus; Selenicereus (mostly epiphytic climbing cacti that bloom at night)

genus Schlumbergera; Schlumbergera (South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti)

genus Rhipsalis; Rhipsalis (large genus of epiphytic or lithophytic unarmed cacti with usually segmented stems and pendulous branches; flowers are small followed by berrylike fruits)

genus Peireskia; genus Pereskia; Peireskia; Pereskia (genus of tropical American shrubby trees and woody climbers having slender branches with broad flat leaves and large panicles of flowers)

genus Opuntia; Opuntia (large genus of cactuses native to America: prickly pears)

genus Nopalea; Nopalea (a genus of the cactus family with scarlet flowers)

genus Pediocactus; Pediocactus (low-growing cacti of the Great Plains of North America)

genus Myrtillocactus; Myrtillocactus (small genus of arborescent cacti of Mexico and Central America)

genus Melocactus; Melocactus (genus of strongly ribbed globose or spheroid cacti of tropical South and Central America and the Caribbean)

genus Mammillaria (large genus of cacti characterized chiefly by nipple-shaped protuberances or tubercles on their surface)

genus Lophophora; Lophophora (two species of small cacti of northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States having rounded stems covered with jointed tubercles: mescal)

genus Lemaireocereus; Lemaireocereus (tropical American cacti usually tall and branching with stout spines and funnel-shaped flowers and globular or ovoid often edible fruit)

genus Hylocereus; Hylocereus (genus of climbing or epiphytic tropical American cacti with angular stems and mostly white very fragrant flowers)

genus Harrisia; Harrisia (genus of slender often treelike spiny cacti with solitary showy nocturnal white or pink flowers; Florida and Caribbean to South America)

genus Gymnocalycium; Gymnocalycium (large genus of low-growing globular South American cacti with spiny ribs covered with many tubercles)

Ferocactus; genus Ferocactus (genus of nearly globular cacti of Mexico and southwestern United States: barrel cacti)

genus Epiphyllum (small genus of tropical American (mainly Central America) cacti)

Echinocereus; genus Echinocereus (large genus of low-growing shrubby ribbed cacti of Mexico and southwestern United States)

genus Echinocactus (globular or cylindrical cacti; southwestern United States to Brazil)

genus Coryphantha (mainly globose cacti of southwestern United States and Mexico covered with many nodules; superficially resembling and formerly included in genus Mammillaria)

Cereus; genus Cereus (genus of much-branched treelike or shrubby cacti with pronounced ribs and rounded needlelike spines and nocturnal flowers usually white)

Carnegiea; genus Carnegiea (caryophylloid dicot genus with only one species: saguaro)

Ariocarpus; genus Ariocarpus (slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas)

Aporocactus; genus Aporocactus (small genus of epiphytic cacti of Mexico)

Acanthocereus; genus Acanthocereus (mostly trailing cacti having nocturnal white flowers; tropical America and Caribbean region)

cactus (any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines)

Holonyms ("cactus family" is a member of...):

Opuntiales; order Opuntiales (coextensive with the family Cactaceae: cactuses)


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