Cactus
Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin cactus (“a spiny plant, possibly the cardoon”), from Ancient Greek κάκτος (káktos).
Proper noun
[edit]Cactus m
- (archaic) A taxonomic genus within the family Cactaceae – original Linnean genus of cactus, rejected in 1905.
Hyponyms
[edit]- (genus): Cactus mammillaris (now Mammillaria mammillaris, woolly nipple cactus) - type species
Derived terms
[edit]- Austrocactus
- Bergerocactus
- Cleistocactus
- Corryocactus
- Discocactus
- Disocactus
- Echinocactus
- Ferocactus
- Melocactus
- Myrtillocactus
- Ortegocactus
- Pediocactus
- Pterocactus
- Sclerocactus
- Stenocactus
- Strombocactus
- Strophocactus
- Tephrocactus
- Thelocactus
References
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Cactus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Cactaceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Cactaceae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Cactus
- A city in Texas.
- An unincorporated community in California.
Categories:
- Translingual terms derived from Latin
- Translingual terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual proper nouns
- Translingual terms with archaic senses
- mul:Taxonomic names (genus)
- mul:Taxonomic names (obsolete)
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Cities in Texas, USA
- en:Cities in the United States
- en:Places in Texas, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Unincorporated communities in California, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in California, USA