opuntia noun.
[ɒ'pʌnʃɪǝ] E17.[Latin, from Opus (accus. Opuntem) (see below), later used as a genus name: see -IA1.]Orig., a plant said to grow about the Locrian city of Opus, in Greece. Now, any cactus of the genus
Opuntia, which includes the prickly pears.
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