NOUN
- round or pear-shaped spiny fruit of any of various prickly pear cacti
- cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock
How To Use prickly pear In A Sentence
- The sauce is simply ancho chillies, beef stock, venison/duck trimmings and prickly pears cooked together then blended, strained and reduced.
- Desert bighorns live in dry, rugged, mountainous terrain, and eat seasonally available plants such as yucca, prickly pear and wild onions. Bighorn Sheep Get A New Home In Texas
- Oh, I know it now; it is what they call the prickly pear in the West Indies. Masterman Ready The Wreck of the "Pacific"
- Other plants found commonly within the reserve include Spanish moss, resurrection fern, prickly pear, saw palmetto, sabal palmetto, yaupon holly, red cedar, smilax and sweet grass. Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve, Georgia
- Prickly pear cacti had been a torment during the difficult portage around the Great Falls of the Missouri.
- These hot and dry rocky slopes support scorpions, tarantulas, collared lizards, pygmy rattlesnakes, roadrunners, and prickly pear cacti.
- The company will export several tons of fumet of prickly pears to Taiwan.
- There are vast quantities of prickly pears, and myriads of grasshoppers, which afford food for a species of curlew which is in great numbers in the plain. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.
- We kept driving, past cedar thickets and a pasture studded with blooming prickly pear cactus.
- It worked well with myxomatosis on rabbits, and cactoblastis on prickly pears.
