ocotillo
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of ocotillo
1855–60, < Mexican Spanish, diminutive of ocote kind of pine < Nahuatl ocotl
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Alvaro Enciso and a group of volunteers walking through an ocotillo forest.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2024
“I know practically where all of these addresses are,” he said, zipping past low-slung Midcentury Modern homes, adorned with ocotillo, agave and palo verde trees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
Climate-related change has a cascading effect, Cornett said, using the ocotillo to illustrate his point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2021
A few foot paths snaked into the hills on the American side staked with spiky ocotillo cactus.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2019
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
It is high desert; ocotillos, scrubby junipers and sagebrush bushes dot the earth between the pinyon pines that give her unincorporated community its name.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
Many desert plants, like ocotillos, Washington fan palms and Joshua trees, are also declining from warming temperatures, less precipitation and thirstier animals.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2022
And that’s how I ended up staring at rat nests in ocotillos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2021
We wandered through a grove of ocotillos, leafed out after a recent rain.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2015
But to the observant, a careful look reveals surprising signs of a new civilization rising among the ocotillos and greasewood.
From Time Magazine Archive
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