![]() This way, the sharp ends don’t poke the camel as it ingests them. The camel’s rotating chew distributes pressure from the cactus and the papillae slide the needles vertically down the throat.Perennial – lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time, a plant living for several years. ![]() Agave – succulent plant with rosettes of narrow spiny leaves and tall flower spikes, native to the southern US and tropical America.Peyote buttons – the crown or top of peyote cactus, looks like a button, used as a psychoactive drug.Desert plant – names of plants found in the desert.Nopal – a cactus which is a major food plant of the bugs from which cochineal is obtained.Thorn – a stiff, sharp-pointed, straight or curved woody projection on the stem or other part of a plant.A tingling sensation on someone’s skin, typically caused by strong emotion Prickle – short, slender-pointed outgrowth on the bark or epidermis of a plant a small thorn.Bristle – short stiff hair, typically one of those on an animal’s skin, a man’s face or a plant.Cactuses – English plural form of cactus.Succulent – juicy, a succulent plant, rich in desirable qualities, fleshy juicy tissue.Peyote – scientific botanists name Lophophora williamsii, small spineless cactus with psychoactive alkaloids.Prickly plant – covered with thin sharp points, plant with prickly leaves.Native speakers and English speakers are more prone to think cactuses based on English rules of making plural nouns, but the scholars who argue about Latin root words seem to have snuffed out those who stick closer to American English rules rather than Latin. Unlike some other words with both a Latin plural form and American English derived plural form, cacti (the Latin plural form) by and large is more commonly used. Some teachers online are even trying to argue that cactuses isn’t a word and that they would take off points as an English professor if someone used it on a paper. It has a more scholarly sound to it, being from a Latin root, it only makes sense, which does tend to work better in the academic context of writing. There seems to be arguments online on whether or not cactuses is correct and an air around the people thinking that they are better than other people who would say cactuses instead of their Latin plural form cacti. This is similar to the english word octopus. There is however an alternative more modern American English plural form of cactus as well. So (one of) the plural form of cactus is cacti, following the Latin root and rules for making Latin words plural. Everyone knows that Latin is a dead language but because of the story outlined above of Linnaeus naming the cactus after the cardoon and cardoon is a Latin based root word, cactus gets the same root. Is Cacti the Acceptable Plural Of Cactus?Įven though the word cactus was formed in recent years (at least in comparison to other words) it still has a Latin root. Linnaeus gave the name cactus to the spiky plants he found in America, thinking that it resembled the Spanish cardoon/artichoke thistle. It wouldn’t be until 1769 that the plant we know as a cactus would get their name. The most common cactus that people think of are the saguaro cactus of the southwestern United States. The artichoke is spiny like other cacti but it wouldn’t look similar to our picture of a common cactus. The cardoon stalks have been consumed in Spain and even considered a delicacy. This plant is actually known as a cardoon or artichoke thistle. You can trace the origin of the word cactus back to 1600, the word was used to describe a Spanish artichoke. any of a family (cactaceae, the cactus family) of plants that have succulent stems and branches with scales or spines instead of leaves and are found especially in dry areas (such as deserts).
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