prickly pears
- plural of prickly pear.
Example Sentences
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On long summer vacations in the countryside, they cautiously picked juicy prickly pears, carelessly built large bonfires and invented creative outdoor games to pass time with cousins.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2023
A renaissance of home cooking commences when non-Mexicans realize that you can eat the young paddles and prickly pears once you remove the thorns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2022
Just past the basketball courts, the picnic tables, and the prickly pears, the source is visible for all to see: a CyrusOne data center.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 1, 2022
And in Southern California, you are as likely to see dragon fruit, prickly pears and star fruit in your morning breakfast fruit bowl as you are raspberries and blueberries.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2021
In 1920 Australian entomologists were sent to North and South America to study insect enemies of the prickly pears in their native habitat.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
