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cactus

cactus · m

a prickly plant with edible stalks

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Where it lives

Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

cactus — Lewis & Short

cactus, i, m., = ka/ktos,

I a prickly plant with edible stalks, etc., found in Sicily, Spanish artichoke: Cynara cardunculus, Linn.; Plin. 21, 16, 57, § 97.—

II Trop., any thing thorny, unpleasant: eradicato omni cacto et rubo subdolae familiaritatis, Tert. Pall. 2 fin.

In the wild

cactos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.21.p87
cactos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.16.p2
cactus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 18.9.5
cactos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.16.p2

Where it came from

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