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    FAMILY CACTACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Constituting the order Opuntialesplay

    Synonyms:

    Cactaceae; cactus family; family Cactaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("family Cactaceae" is a kind of...):

    caryophylloid dicot family (family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

    Meronyms (members of "family Cactaceae"):

    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 ("family Cactaceae" is a member of...):

    Opuntiales; order Opuntiales (coextensive with the family Cactaceae: cactuses)

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