prickly pear in English

noun
1
a cactus with jointed stems and oval flattened segments, having barbed bristles and large pear-shaped, prickly fruits.
We are rich with saguaros, prickly pear , and cholla cacti, and palo verde, and mesquite trees.

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1. Prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-Barbarica A

2. Prickly pear Cactus is most commonly used for diabetes.

3. Cochineal Scale Cochineal Scale and the Prickly Pear Cactus

4. Prickly pear Cactus is eaten whole (boiled or grilled)

5. 13 Did Zenaida burn up, poisoned herself by the robe of prickly pear?

6. Did Zenaida burn up, poisoned herself by the robe of prickly pear?

7. 12 With an Epilady you don't end up with a prickly pear.

8. If you'd like to try prickly pear Cactus, consider easing into it.

9. 6 The ground was rocky, uneven, and hard . Prickly pear cactuses were everywhere.

10. 8 Did Zenaida burn up, poisoned herself by the robe of prickly pear?

11. 1 Heading up an orange-dirt trail, she passes prickly pear cactus and yucca.

12. 13 One of the minute barbed hairs or bristles on certain plants, such as the prickly pear.

13. The nopal Cactus, which is native to Mexico, is more commonly known as the prickly pear Cactus

14. 4 Scientists have known that prickly pear cleans water but their understanding of the mechanism was poor.

15. How an Arizonan Company Turns Cacti Into Candy Prickly pear gummies are a taste of the Sonoran Desert

16. 15 asking for a chocolate butterscotch martini, or an apple martini, lemon drop martini or prickly pear martini?

17. 2 Prickly pear cacti fill the foreground and saguaros cover the distant hills in Arizona's Saguaro National Park.

18. 10 We could see grassy tracks winding through the fields between stone walls and hedges of prickly pear.

19. 9 When they thinned out he headed for the cherry blossoms, then magnolia, chinaberry, pecan, walnut and prickly pear.

20. The most classical example of weed - destroying insect in India is the prickly - pear cactus mealy - bug Dactylopius tontentosus .

21. 17 These are the real culprits, because they are the ones who make labour such a prickly pear in industry today.

22. Dance off that burnt passion fruit tart with fresh mango and prickly pear to get a head start on 2001 resolutions.

23. Indeed, prickly pear Cactus is popular in many areas of the world, particularly Latin America, where it is a native plant

24. He was an old countryman with a betel-ravaged mouth, the cancerous tongue sticking helplessly out like a crimson prickly pear.

25. 26 He was an old countryman with a betel-ravaged mouth, the cancerous tongue sticking helplessly out like a crimson prickly pear.

26. 7 Dance off that burnt passion fruit tart with fresh mango and prickly pear to get a head start on 2001 resolutions.

27. 19 Can you imagine James Bond asking for a chocolate butterscotch martini, or an apple martini, lemon drop martini or prickly pear martini?

28. 18 The team obtained the date of 9260 years ago for the coprolite by radiocarbon dating one of the prickly pear seeds inside.

29. These cochineal bugs used to harvest Carmine are mainly harvested in Peru and the Canary Islands, where the insects live on prickly pear

30. 11 He was an old countryman with a betel-ravaged mouth,(www.Sentencedict.com) the cancerous tongue sticking helplessly out like a crimson prickly pear.

31. These Cochineal bugs used to harvest carmine are mainly harvested in Peru and the Canary Islands, where the insects live on prickly pear cacti.

32. In the distance to the east, our cliff top fanned out into an arid square mile of Indian grass, prickly pear, and more sage.

33. In the study, the impact of harvest time on total phenolic content, antioxidant activity, and phenolic compounds of prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-Barbarica A

34. 16 In the distance to the east, our cliff top fanned out into an arid square mile of Indian grass, prickly pear, and more sage.

35. Barbary fig, a variety of prickly pear cactus, is thought to be native to Mexico where it has long been used for a variety of purposes

36. The use of the mealybug Dactylopius tomentosus in eradicating the prickly - pear cactus in South India , to which we have already referred , is another instance of biological control .

37. 3 The nopal (or prickly pear) cactus, Opuntia ficus-indica, is native to the United States and grown widely on the African continent, Mexico and other developing countries.

38. 20 Can you imagine James Bond asking for a chocolate butterscotch martini, or an apple martini, lemon drop martini or prickly pear martini?Unlikely for the suave superspy.

39. 14 Any of several red scale insects of the family Dactylopiidae that feed on cacti, especially the prickly pear, and range from the southwest United States to Central America.

40. 21 The ancient fecal material, or coprolite, was littered with seared prickly pear seeds—a food prepared and cooked by humans—and flecked with small bones from fish, birds, and rodents.

41. anona (Anona spp.), pineapple (Ananas spp.), avocado (Persea spp.), banana (Musa spp.), prickly pear (Opuntia spp.), lychee (Litchi spp.), kiwi (Actinidea spp.), papaya (Carica spp.), mango (Mangifera spp.), guava (Psidium spp.), passion fruit (Passiflora spp

42. In this type of Agamospermy, a diploid embryosac is formed either from the diploid nucellar cells (a phenomenon called apospory, e.g., citrus, mango, prickly pear etc.) or from the diploid megaspore mother cell (a phenomenon called diplospory, e.g

43. The following crops are for example regarded as subtropical fruit and berry species: anona (Anona spp.), pineapple (Ananas spp.), avocado (Persea spp.), banana (Musa spp.), prickly pear (Opuntia spp.), lychee (Litchi spp.), papaya (Carica spp.), mango (Mangifera spp.), guava (Psidium spp.), passion fruit (Passiflora spp.).

44. The following crops are regarded as subtropical fruit and berry species: anona (Anona spp.), pineapple (Ananas spp.), avocado (Persea spp.), banana (Musa spp.), prickly pear (Opuntia spp.), lychee (Litchi spp.), kiwi (Actinidea spp.), papaya (Carica spp.), mango (Mangifera spp.), guava (Psidium spp.), passion fruit (Passiflora spp.).

45. The Cochineal (dactylopius coccus), is a slate bug that feeds on the prickly pear grown throughout Mexico, South America, the southwestern United States and the Canary islands off the coast of Spain.The male Cochineal plays its own unique role in nature, but it's the wingless, legless female that interests dye makers

46. As nouns the difference between tuna and Bonito is that tuna is any of several species of fish, of the genus thunnus , in the family scombridae or tuna can be the prickly pear, a type of cactus native to mexico in the genus opuntia while Bonito is any of various marine fish of the genus (taxlink), that are related to and resemble the tuna.