GENUS OPUNTIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Opuntia mean? 

• GENUS OPUNTIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS OPUNTIA has 1 sense:

1. large genus of cactuses native to America: prickly pears

  Familiarity information: GENUS OPUNTIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS OPUNTIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large genus of cactuses native to America: prickly pears

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Opuntia; Opuntia

Hypernyms ("genus Opuntia" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Opuntia"):

prickly pear; prickly pear cactus (cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock)

cholla; Opuntia cholla (arborescent cacti having very spiny cylindrical stem segments; southwestern United States and Mexico)

Holonyms ("genus Opuntia" is a member of...):

Cactaceae; cactus family; family Cactaceae (constituting the order Opuntiales)