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prickly_pear

prickly pear

English

Prickly pear.

Noun

prickly pear ‎(plural prickly pears)

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

Synonyms

Indian fig

Translations

any of various spiny cacti of the genus Opuntia

Arabic: تِين شَوْكِيّ m ‎(tīn šawkiyy)
Egyptian Arabic: تين شوكي m ‎(tiin šuuki)
Chinese: 仙人掌果 (zh)
Czech: opuncie f
Finnish: viikunakaktus
French: figue de barbarie
German: Kaktusfeige (de) f

Greek: φραγκοσυκιά (el) f ‎(frankosykiá)
Irish: piorra deilgneach m
Italian: fico d'India (it) m
Macedonian: опунтија f ‎(opúntija)
Navajo: hosh niteelí
Portuguese: figueira-da-Índia f
Spanish: higo chumbo m, tuna (es) f
Welsh: opwntia m, gellygen bigog f, peren bigog f

cactus fruit

Finnish: kaktusviikuna
German: Kaktusfeige (de) f
Greek: φραγκόσυκο (el) n ‎(frankósyko)
Irish: piorra deilgneach m
Italian: fico d'India (it) m

Navajo: hosh bineestʼąʼ
Portuguese: figo-da-Índia m
Russian: опу́нция (ru) f ‎(opúncija)
Swedish: kaktusfikon n

External links

prickly pear on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Opuntia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies