prickly pear

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English

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Prickly pear (Opuntia ovata)

Etymology

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From prickly +‎ pear, from the nature of the plant's fruit, which, like the cactus it grows on, has spines on its surface.

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prickly pear (plural prickly pears)

  1. Any of various spiny cacti of the genus Opuntia.
  2. The fruit, often edible, of such a plant.

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