Cacti vs. Cactus

Cactinoun

plural of cactus

Cactusnoun

(botany) Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate.

Cactusnoun

Any succulent plant with a thick fleshy stem bearing spines but no leaves, including pl=s.

Cactusadjective

Non-functional, broken, exhausted.

Cactusnoun

Any plant of the order Cactacæ, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America.

Cactusnoun

any spiny succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World

Cactus

A cactus (plural cacti, cactuses, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising about 127 genera with some 1750 known species of the order Caryophyllales. The word derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Greek κάκτος, kaktos, a name originally used by Theophrastus for a spiny plant whose identity is now not certain.