How To Use Prickly pear In A Sentence
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The sauce is simply ancho chillies, beef stock, venison/duck trimmings and prickly pears cooked together then blended, strained and reduced.
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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
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Oh, I know it now; it is what they call the prickly pear in the West Indies.
Masterman Ready The Wreck of the "Pacific"
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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
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Prickly pear cacti had been a torment during the difficult portage around the Great Falls of the Missouri.
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These hot and dry rocky slopes support scorpions, tarantulas, collared lizards, pygmy rattlesnakes, roadrunners, and prickly pear cacti.
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The company will export several tons of fumet of prickly pears to Taiwan.
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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.
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We kept driving, past cedar thickets and a pasture studded with blooming prickly pear cactus.
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It worked well with myxomatosis on rabbits, and cactoblastis on prickly pears.
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On hillocks trailing she-oaks, olives, myrtle and prickly pear, circular ruins rise up, like razed windmills.
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This annual festival boasts food and craft stalls, with the main attraction being the prickly pear witblits made in a 19th century copper still.
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It takes in the dried-up soil, the prickly pear, the palm tree and the distant mountain, but it always misses the peasant hoeing at his patch.
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One of these, the species of cactus known as the prickly pear, the Queenslander has pretty nearly all to himself.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
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Like prickly pear thorns, needle grass penetrated moccasins and leather leggings and punctured the skin.
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We are rich with saguaros, prickly pear, and cholla cacti, and paloverde, and mesquite trees.
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Sometimes, out for a walk, as you break your way through the prickly pear, you notice that it is rather bumpy underfoot, and only a certain regularity in the bumps tells you that you are walking over skeletons.
Marrakech
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Beneath fields of tamarisk and prickly pear, Indian ricegrass, snakeweed, and Russian thistle, a plume of contaminated water stretched for a subterranean mile.3 The stream, half again as wide as it was long, contained about 4.5 million polluted gallons from the ore itself and the various chemicals that VCA poured through it to draw the uranium out.
Yellow Dirt
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Previous research has also found it can combat hangovers if you drink the juice of prickly pear before going on a night out.
The Sun
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In their desert habitats their diet consists of spiny cactus, yucca pods, creosote bush, cholla, pinyon nuts, seeds, prickly pear, and any available green vegetation.
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Plants here include prairie rose, nodding onion, gray-headed coneflower, butterfly weed, green milkweed, hoary puccoon, and even eastern prickly pear cactus.
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I had the seafood ceviche with rice & beans on the side and a prickly pear margarita.
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Cultural appropriation can be a prickly pear, but perfect is the enemy of good, as my mother used to say.
Times, Sunday Times
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After the success I had with the prickly pear mead and the holiday spice metheglin from a few years back, I really thought I had it down with this meadmaking stuff.
Archive 2010-01-01
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As for the prickly pear entrada that so enticed me on the menu card, it did pack quite a punch.
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Harsh fortresses of prickly pears and shard grass and dead branches block off all escape.
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The nopal (or prickly pear) cactus, Opuntia ficus-indica, is native to the United States and grown widely on the African continent, Mexico and other developing countries.
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Plants here include prairie rose, nodding onion, gray-headed coneflower, butterfly weed, green milkweed, hoary puccoon, and even eastern prickly pear cactus.
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Prickly pear cacti and large agave succulents, introduced from Mexico, grow everywhere in the north of the island.
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We are rich with saguaros, prickly pear, and cholla cacti, and palo verde, and mesquite trees.
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But how to survive without prickly pears?
Times, Sunday Times
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We are rich with saguaros, prickly pear, and cholla cacti, and palo verde, and mesquite trees.
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The puma is crouched, ready to leap past a prickly pear onto the back of a proud stag.
A Storyteller - On Pottery
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ARC Plant Protection Research Institute has been collaborating with the IAEA and other overseas experts on the use of SIT to control cactus moth, Cactoblastis cactorum, a pest on cactus and prickly pear, and serious threat to millions of hectares of indigenous cactaceous flora in Mexico and the USA.
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Plants here include prairie rose, nodding onion, gray-headed coneflower, butterfly weed, green milkweed, hoary puccoon, and even eastern prickly pear cactus.
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A pebble hit my back and I turned left into a deep ravine, an overgrown clot of oak and elderberry, sage and prickly pear.
GENIE ON THE LOOSE
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At the May state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, prickly pear cactus showed up in vermeil wine coolers, and Dowling also tucked a few among the centerpieces of fuchsia roses and cattleya orchids.
The White House's new florist in chief is boldly creating blooms with a view
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They lead into pine forests as well as impressive stands of coastal sage scrub and chaparral communities notable for Mojave yuccas, prickly pear, and agaves.
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On San Salvador Island in the Bahamas, prickly pear cactus is a major food of rock iguanas.
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Prickly pear unfortunately thrives along the Rim, growing at the base and among the belays, and we were all soon pincushioned with tiny golden spines.
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Known in English as the "prickly pear" cactus, this member of the opuntia genus produces the vegetable called nopal, sometimes referred to as "cactus paddles" in the Southwestern United States, and the fruit called tuna.
Cooking with Cactus: Nopales Cactus
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And the fruit of the prickly pear, the pitahayas - what do they contain?
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At the May state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, prickly pear cactus showed up in vermeil wine coolers, and Dowling also tucked a few among the centerpieces of fuchsia roses and cattleya orchids.
The White House's new florist in chief is boldly creating blooms with a view
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The prickly pear is ideal food for the Collared Peccary due to its high water content.
A Perfectly Good Peccary.
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He can get fat on grass burs an' prickly pear, an' some other cowhand's saddle is frosted cake to him.
Bowdrie's Law by Louis L'Amour
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Mesquite and prickly pear, agave and tall, bloomed-out stalks of sotol gave a sparse shade for the baking land.
THIS TIME LOVE
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In spring, the desert and mountains erupt into a vibrant carpet of spring flowers, including bluebonnets, bi-colored mustards, and numerous species of cactus such as prickly pear, claret cup and rainbow.
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One of the newer hangover cures on the block, people have in fact been eating prickly pear cactus for hundreds of years.
The Sun
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Sideoats grama, buffalo grass, sagebrush, yucca and prickly pear cactus are also common on the canyon floor and walls.
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One of the newer hangover cures on the block, people have in fact been eating prickly pear cactus for hundreds of years.
The Sun
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The extinct mammoths ate mainly grasses, sedges, and other riparian plants, salt bush, prickly pear, and even some needles of blue spruce.
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Even though a prickly pear may be visibly spineless, the glochids on paddles and fruits remain just as nasty.
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Examples of these endemic cacti are the lava cactus (Brachycereus nesioticus) and prickly pear cacti (Opuntia echios and O. helleri).
Galápagos Islands xeric scrub
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The fruit from the prickly pear - a cross between kiwi fruit and a ripe pear - is wonderful.
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We kept driving, past cedar thickets and a pasture studded with blooming prickly pear cactus.
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Prickly pear cactus grows here too - evidence of the arid conditions.
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Cane cactus (Opuntia arborescens) — Cane or whip cactus (also known as cholla, candelabrum cactus, prickly pear, etc.) is scattered over the entire Chaco area.
Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico :
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Velvet cactus, prickly pear, Bergerocactus emoryi, and cholla are widespread, often joined by box thorn, a prickly shrub in the nightshade family.
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In their desert habitats their diet consists of spiny cactus, yucca pods, creosote bush, cholla, pinyon nuts, seeds, prickly pear, and any available green vegetation.
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Being in the desert was a new experience for me, a native Westerner who had never seen birds nesting in a saguaro nor tasted a prickly pear margarita.
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It grows here, along with numerous smaller cacti, including beaver-tail cactus, California barrel cactus, hedgehog cactus, and various prickly pear cacti.
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Like prickly pear thorns, needle grass penetrated moccasins and leather leggings and punctured the skin.
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The children have learned to identify wild edible and medicinal plants in our bioregion, helping to harvest prickly pear and banana yucca fruit each season, as well as to appreciate the healing benefits of juniper berries, snakeweed, mallow, horehound, and more.
Randall Amster: "I Want to Be a Farmer": Food Justice, Out of the Mouths of Babes
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The children have learned to identify wild edible and medicinal plants in our bioregion, helping to harvest prickly pear and banana yucca fruit each season, as well as to appreciate the healing benefits of juniper berries, snakeweed, mallow, horehound, and more.
Randall Amster: "I Want to Be a Farmer": Food Justice, Out of the Mouths of Babes
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At the May state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, prickly pear cactus showed up in vermeil wine coolers, and Dowling also tucked a few among the in the centerpieces of fuchsia roses and Cattleya orchids.
White House florist shows Obamas' relaxed style
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Ostensibly the model sabra literally, a “prickly pear,” the term for natural-born Israelis, at age sixteen he was in the reserve squad of Israel’s national basketball team, his determination making up for his lack of height.
The Secret War with Iran
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Side of the river a hard rain all the evening we are all Cold and wet. on this part of the river on the head of Clarks River I observe great quantities of a peculiar Sort of Prickly peare grow in Clusters ovel & about the Size of a Pigions egge with Strong Thorns which is So birded as to draw the Pear from the Cluster after penetrateing our feet.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
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Because of the glochids, great care is required when harvesting or preparing prickly pear cactus.
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One of the newer hangover cures on the block, people have in fact been eating prickly pear cactus for hundreds of years.
The Sun
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Prickly pear cacti and large agave succulents, introduced from Mexico, grow everywhere in the north of the island.
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We found that these pads, if placed too close to prickly pears infected by Cactoblastis, would soon be discovered by the moths and eaten by caterpillars.
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Each is desperate to entice you with luscious tomatilla salsa and freshly harvested prickly pears and aching to discuss whether your chilli preference is for ancho or chipotle.
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Flanked by ocotillo and prickly pear, you'll make an easy half-day ride to the Telephone Canyon backcountry campsite.
