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CACTUS FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Constituting the order Opuntiales
Synonyms:
Cactaceae; cactus family; family Cactaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cactus family" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot family (family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "cactus family"):
genus Zygocactus; Zygocactus (small genus of Brazilian cacti having flat fleshy usually branched joints and showy red or pink flowers followed by red fleshy fruits)
genus Selenicereus; Selenicereus (mostly epiphytic climbing cacti that bloom at night)
genus Schlumbergera; Schlumbergera (South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti)
genus Rhipsalis; Rhipsalis (large genus of epiphytic or lithophytic unarmed cacti with usually segmented stems and pendulous branches; flowers are small followed by berrylike fruits)
genus Peireskia; genus Pereskia; Peireskia; Pereskia (genus of tropical American shrubby trees and woody climbers having slender branches with broad flat leaves and large panicles of flowers)
genus Opuntia; Opuntia (large genus of cactuses native to America: prickly pears)
genus Nopalea; Nopalea (a genus of the cactus family with scarlet flowers)
genus Pediocactus; Pediocactus (low-growing cacti of the Great Plains of North America)
genus Myrtillocactus; Myrtillocactus (small genus of arborescent cacti of Mexico and Central America)
genus Melocactus; Melocactus (genus of strongly ribbed globose or spheroid cacti of tropical South and Central America and the Caribbean)
genus Mammillaria (large genus of cacti characterized chiefly by nipple-shaped protuberances or tubercles on their surface)
genus Lophophora; Lophophora (two species of small cacti of northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States having rounded stems covered with jointed tubercles: mescal)
genus Lemaireocereus; Lemaireocereus (tropical American cacti usually tall and branching with stout spines and funnel-shaped flowers and globular or ovoid often edible fruit)
genus Hylocereus; Hylocereus (genus of climbing or epiphytic tropical American cacti with angular stems and mostly white very fragrant flowers)
genus Hatiora; Hatiora (small genus of South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti)
genus Harrisia; Harrisia (genus of slender often treelike spiny cacti with solitary showy nocturnal white or pink flowers; Florida and Caribbean to South America)
genus Gymnocalycium; Gymnocalycium (large genus of low-growing globular South American cacti with spiny ribs covered with many tubercles)
Ferocactus; genus Ferocactus (genus of nearly globular cacti of Mexico and southwestern United States: barrel cacti)
genus Epiphyllum (small genus of tropical American (mainly Central America) cacti)
Echinocereus; genus Echinocereus (large genus of low-growing shrubby ribbed cacti of Mexico and southwestern United States)
genus Echinocactus (globular or cylindrical cacti; southwestern United States to Brazil)
genus Coryphantha (mainly globose cacti of southwestern United States and Mexico covered with many nodules; superficially resembling and formerly included in genus Mammillaria)
Cereus; genus Cereus (genus of much-branched treelike or shrubby cacti with pronounced ribs and rounded needlelike spines and nocturnal flowers usually white)
Carnegiea; genus Carnegiea (caryophylloid dicot genus with only one species: saguaro)
Ariocarpus; genus Ariocarpus (slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas)
Aporocactus; genus Aporocactus (small genus of epiphytic cacti of Mexico)
Acanthocereus; genus Acanthocereus (mostly trailing cacti having nocturnal white flowers; tropical America and Caribbean region)
cactus (any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines)
Holonyms ("cactus family" is a member of...):
Opuntiales; order Opuntiales (coextensive with the family Cactaceae: cactuses)
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