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What is the noun for cactus?

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cactus
  1. (botany) Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate.
  2. Any succulent plant with a thick fleshy stem bearing spines but no leaves, including euphorbs.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “This incredibly beautiful desert wouldn't be complete without its gardens of cactus, black brush, yucca, monkey flower, Easter flowers, and ferns.”
cactoid
  1. A member of the cactus subfamily Cactoideae.
  2. (topology) A locally connected continnuum that is the closure of the union of an at most countable number of spheres and simple arcs, of which every simple closed contour is contained in one and only one of the spheres.
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    1. “It is well known that a Peano space is a cactoid if and only if each of its true cyclic elements is a 2-sphere.”
cactoids
cacti
  1. plural of cactus
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Ms Lloyd said cacti could injure livestock and working dogs and contaminate wool.”
      “There are clubs devoted to every plant group imaginable, from cacti to clematis, roses to rhododendrons.”
      “The often steep and rugged lower slopes of the mountains are dominated by cacti, agaves, yuccas, and thorn-bearing shrubs.”
cactuses
  1. plural of cactus
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    1. “They looked like sunken fat cactuses, as a result of sporadic bristly hairs dotting their bulbous backs.”
      “Terracotta pots overflow with cactuses and red, pink and purple flowers, above which spread expansive palms and orange and lemon trees.”
      “It is situated high up in the crotch of open-crowned trees, on top of treelike saguaro cactuses, on cliff ledges, poles, or buildings.”
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