Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cactus \Cac"tus\, n.; pl. E. Cactuses, Cacti (-t[imac]).
[L., a kind of cactus, Gr. ??????.] (Bot.)
Any plant of the order Cactac[ae], as the prickly pear and
the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have
leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered
thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of
America.
[1913 Webster]
Cactus wren (Zool.), an American wren of the genus
Campylorhynchus, of several species.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cactus
n 1: any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly
to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "cactus":
bramble, brier, bristle, burr, catchweed, cleavers, goose grass,
needle, nettle, pine needle, prickle, quill, spicule, spiculum,
spike, spikelet, spine, sticker, thistle, thorn, yucca
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Cactus, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 2538
Housing Units (2000): 820
Land area (2000): 2.040434 sq. miles (5.284699 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.040434 sq. miles (5.284699 sq. km)
FIPS code: 11692
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 36.046124 N, 102.002251 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Cactus, TX
Cactus