cactus

• n. [园艺] 仙人掌

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cactus

cactus: [17] Cactus comes via Latin from Greek káktos, which was the name of the cardoon, a plant of the thistle family with edible leafstalks. Cactus originally had that meaning in English too, and it was not until the 18th century that the Swedish botanist Linnaeus applied the term to a family of similarly prickly plants.

cactus (n.)

c. 1600, from Latin cactus "cardoon," from Greek kaktos, name of a type of prickly plant of Sicily (the Spanish artichoke), perhaps of pre-Hellenic origin. Modern meaning is 18c., because Linnaeus gave the name to a group of plants he thought were related to this but are not.

1. Researchers observed one bird impale a rodent on a cactus.

研究人员观察到一只鸟把一只啮齿动物钉在一棵仙人掌上。

来自柯林斯例句

2. The road winds for miles through parched earth, scrub and cactus.

公路蜿蜒数英里，穿过炙烤的大地、灌木丛和仙人掌。

来自柯林斯例句

3. It was the first year that the cactus had produced flowers.

这是这棵仙人掌第一年开花.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. Cactus is a type of green desert plant.

仙人掌是一种绿色的沙漠植物.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. The giant cactus is the vegetable skycraper.

高大的仙人掌是植物界巨人.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》