cactaceous
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of cactaceous
1850–55; < New Latin Cactace ( ae ) name of the family ( see cactus, -aceae) + -ous
Example Sentences
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She is, however, much more orchidaceous than cactaceous.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fertile soils and spontaneous vegetation, reeking with miasma and overpowering from their odour, we had exchanged for a drouthy wilderness of aloetic and cactaceous plants, where the kolquall and several thorn bushes grew paramount.
From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)
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