a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs

constituting the order Opuntiales

cactus of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having edible juicy fruit

commonly cultivated tropical American cactus having slender creeping stems and very large showy crimson flowers that bloom for several days

usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit; resembles the related mescal; northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States

extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit

any of several cacti of the genus Cereus

constituting the order Opuntiales