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Definition of Hedgehog cactus
1. Noun. Cactus of the genus Echinocactus having stout sharp spines.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hedgehog Cactus
Literary usage of Hedgehog cactus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cactaceous Plants: Their History and Culture by Lewis Castle (1884)
"(The hedgehog cactus.) The hedgehog cactus genus is one of the largest in the
... The strangest character connected with the hedgehog cactus is, however, ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"[Greek, hedgehog-cactus.] About 200 described species, natives of America.
Besides the following, some 30 others occur in the western and southwestern ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"2) is the name given to the genus bearing the popular name of hedgehog cactus.
It comprises some 200 species, distributed from the south-west United States ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... is the name given to the group bearing the popular name of hedgehog cactus.
It comprises some 200 species, of which mon thon half an natives of Mexico, ..."
5. California Desert Trails by Joseph Smeaton Chase (1919)
"hedgehog cactus. A cluster of spiny short stems about the size and shape of
cucumbers. Flowers very handsome, large, cup-shaped, bright rose-purple with ..."
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