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Prickly pear

//ˌpɹɪk.li ˈpɛə(ɹ)// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An island of the British Virgin Islands.
Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various spiny cacti of the genus Opuntia.
  2. 2
    round or pear-shaped spiny fruit of any of various prickly pear cacti wordnet
  3. 3
    The fruit, often edible, of such a plant.
  4. 4
    cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

The island is named for the prickly pear (“Opuntia sp.”) plants which grow on it.

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