Sharp spines erupt from the skin of a prickly pear cactus in the Galapagos Islands.
It takes in the dried-up soil, the prickly pear, the palm tree and the distant mountain, but it always misses the peasant hoeing at his patch.
Any of several flat-jointed tropical American cacti of the genus Opuntia, which includes the prickly pears, especially O. tuna of Jamaica, having yellow flowers and edible red fruit.
But scientists say the plaque deposits can be reduced with chemicals from plants, including prickly pear and brown seaweed.
large genus of cactuses native to America: prickly pears.
prickly pear (type of cactus covered with prickles)
any of several cacti of the genus Nopalea resembling prickly pears.
The ancient fecal material, or coprolite, was littered with seared prickly pear seeds and flecked with small bones from fish, birds, and rodents.
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.
A courtyard is framed between the two wings. Its central feature is a well, which can be used to maintain the surrounding garden, including a prickly pear plant at the site's entrance.
Here we go round the prickly pear.
tropical American flat-jointed prickly pear; Jamaica.
