cholla
noun
any of several spiny treelike cacti belonging to the genus Opuntia, especially O. fulgida of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having knobby outgrowths and yellow spines.
chollas
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pluralof cholla.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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At night, cars speed along the desert roads, their headlights casting meager light against the dark or illuminating the tops of the chollas.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2021
I pulled over, to the side of the dirt road, and told him to get out, happy to leave him among the chollas and scrubby piñon trees.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2015
Surrounded by chollas, bur sage, and the comical scurrying of collared lizards, McCandless pitched his tent in the puny shade of a tamarisk and basked in his newfound freedom.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Here, on a low, sun-scorched rise dotted with chollas and indigobushes and twelve-foot ocotillo stems, McCandless slept on the sand under a tarp hung from a creosote branch.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
He hung on until he was drug into a bunch of chollas, and then he had to let go.
From The Killer by Stewart Edward White
