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fishhook cactus
noun
a large cactus, Ferocactus wislizenii, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having hooked spines and red or yellow flowers.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fishhook cactus1
An Americanism dating back to 1845–50
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Billowing white clouds drifted off burnt-brown hills bristling with branched and twisted Joshua trees and fishhook cactus.
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The eighth day we ran out of the fishhook cactus, and, being on a high promontory, were out of touch with the sea.
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Perhaps the fishhook cactus had helped.
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About this time Denton ran across some fishhook cactus, which we cut up and chewed.
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Just at sundown we took another wallow in the surf, and chewed some more fishhook cactus.
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