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VINE CACTUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vine cactus mean?
• VINE CACTUS (noun)
The noun VINE CACTUS has 1 sense:
1. desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers
Familiarity information: VINE CACTUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
coachwhip; Fouquieria splendens; Jacob's staff; ocotillo; vine cactus
Hypernyms ("vine cactus" is a kind of...):
candlewood (any of several resinous trees or shrubs often burned for light)
Holonyms ("vine cactus" is a member of...):
Fouquieria; genus Fouquieria (resinous succulent trees or shrubs of desert and semidesert regions of southwestern United States that are leafless most of the year)
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