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Definition of Cereus triangularis

Cereus triangularis
Prickly Prick"ly, a. Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. Prickly ash (Bot.), a prickly shrub (Xanthoxylum Americanum) with yellowish flowers appearing with the leaves. All parts of the plant are pungent and aromatic. The southern species is X. Carolinianum. --Gray. Prickly heat (Med.), a noncontagious cutaneous eruption of red pimples, attended with intense itching and tingling of the parts affected. It is due to inflammation of the sweat glands, and is often brought on by overheating the skin in hot weather. Prickly pear (Bot.), a name given to several plants of the cactaceous genus Opuntia, American plants consisting of fleshy, leafless, usually flattened, and often prickly joints inserted upon each other. The sessile flowers have many petals and numerous stamens. The edible fruit is a large pear-shaped berry containing many flattish seeds. The common species of the Northern Atlantic States is Opuntia vulgaris. In the South and West are many others, and in tropical America more than a hundred more. O. vulgaris, O. Ficus-Indica, and O. Tuna are abundantly introduced in the Mediterranean region, and O. Dillenii has become common in India. Prickly pole (Bot.), a West Indian palm (Bactris Plumierana), the slender trunk of which bears many rings of long black prickles. Prickly withe (Bot.), a West Indian cactaceous plant (Cereus triangularis) having prickly, slender, climbing, triangular stems. Prickly rat (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of South American burrowing rodents belonging to Ctenomys and allied genera. The hair is usually intermingled with sharp spines.

Meaning of Cereus triangularis from wikipedia

- were designated "Hylocereus ocampensis" (or "Cereus repandus", the red fruit) and "Cereus triangularis" (supposedly, the yellow fruit or the three-sided...
- ovoce Danish: Dragefrugt English: pitahaya, dragon fruit, night blooming cereus, strawberry pear, Belle of the Night, Cinderella plant, Jesus in the cradle...
- preferred. The name cereus originates in a book by Tabernaemont**** published in 1625 and refers to the candle-like form of species Cereus hexagonus. Regularly...
- of monographs on Cactus (Albany, 1875); Cereus Grandiflorus and Cereus bonplandi (1876); Cereus triangularis and Phyllocactus grandis (1876); Cardinal...
- America, the Caribbean and northern South America. The term night-blooming cereus is also sometimes used, but this is also used for many night-blooming cacti...
- & Rose → Selenicereus stenopterus Hylocereus triangularis (L.) Britton & Rose → Selenicereus triangularis Hylocereus trigonus (Haw.) Saff. → Selenicereus...
- prolifera), coastal prickly pear (Opuntia littoralis) and the golden-spined cereus (Bergerocactus emoryi). This habitat is most typical of northwestern Baja...
- cactus Cereus insularis Cereus jamacaru Cereus lamprospermus Cereus lanosus Cereus phatnospermus Cereus repandus, apple cactus Cereus spegazzinii Cereus stenogonus...
- aguirreanum Arrojadoa albiflora Arrojadoa marylaniae Astrophytum caput-medusae Cereus saddi**** Cipocereus pusilliflorus Cleistocactus hoffmannii Cleistocactus...
- Plants are found growing along Stenocereus pruinosus, Selenicereus triangularis and Echinocereus enneacanthus var. carnosus . Karl Theodor Rümpler first...