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prickly pear cactus

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English

Syllables
prick-ly -pear -cac-tus
IPA
34
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of prickly pear (“various plants of the genus Opuntia”).

Inflected Forms

prickly pear cactuses (plural) prickly pear cacti (plural)

Synonyms

prickly pear

Questions

What does prickly pear cactus mean?
Alternative form of prickly pear (“various plants of the genus Opuntia”).

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