Crossword-Solution: CACTUS 6 letters, 92 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Cactus n. Any plant of the order Cactacae, 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.

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Peyote is one 1 answer
Desert prickly plant 1 answer
Flora that's tricky to transplant 1 answer
Garner's nickname, ___ Jack. 1 answer
It can be sticky in Arizona 1 answer
It contains points in Arizona 1 answer
It has points in Arizona 1 answer
It has points in the desert 1 answer
It often breaks Wile E.'s fall 1 answer
Low-maintenance potted plant 1 answer
Mescal is one 1 answer
Mescal or prickly pear 1 answer
Mescal, e.g. 1 answer
Sticking plant 1 answer
Natural sticker 1 answer
Old-man ___, Mexican plant 1 answer
Prickly pear, perhaps 1 answer
Peyote or saguaro 1 answer
Plant in Road Runner cartoons 1 answer
Plant in many Road Runner cartoons 1 answer
Plant of the desert. 1 answer
Plant seen in Road Runner cartoons 1 answer
Plant with prickles 1 answer
Spiny desert plant 1 answer
Prickly pear, e.g. 1 answer
Prickly pear, for one 1 answer
Prickly succulent 1 answer
Saguaro or cholla. 1 answer
Saguaro, e.g. 1 answer
Saguaro, for one 1 answer
Source of Arizona's State Flower. 1 answer
Source of psychoactive agents 1 answer
Defense plant? 1 answer
Desert plant with spines 1 answer
spine bearing succulent plant 1 answer
plant Spiny anteater 1 answer
cereus 1 answer
____ Flower : Goldie Hawn 1969 Oscar winner 1 answer
___ wren (Arizona's state bird) 1 answer
__ wren (Arizona state bird) 1 answer
Xerophyte 1 answer
Xeric plant 1 answer
What has spikes of interest? 1 answer
Thorny desert plant 1 answer
Symbol of Arizona 1 answer
Desert flora sight, perhaps 1 answer
Bit of desert flora 1 answer
A spiny plant 1 answer
Arizona bloomer 1 answer
BRILLIANTLY colored/coloured flowering plant 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
CNRAOE
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with CACTUS (5)

Now I stood on a mound of smashed brickwork, clay, and gravel, over which spread a multitude of red cactus-shaped plants, knee-high, without a solitary terrestrial growth to dispute their footing.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992
Sometimes he got into the cactus and set up a howl, but usually he let his sister read peacefully, while he coated his hands and face, first with an all-day sucker and then with gravel.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Miles upon miles to the east and southeast the desert unrolled itself, white, naked, inhospitable, palpitating and shimmering under the sun, unbroken by so much as a rock or cactus stump.
McTeague Frank Norris 2006
They went together through the gorgeous unnatural beauty of cactus and azalea and found Leonard Quinton, poet and romancer, with his head hanging downward off his ottoman and his red curls sweeping the ground.
The Innocence of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1995
The stroll soon resolved itself into a tranquil session on a bench overhung with laurel and Banksian roses, from which they caught a dazzle of blue sea between marble balusters, and the fiery shafts of cactus-blossoms shooting meteor-like from the rock.
The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995

Quotes with CACTUS (3)

That craptastical, gutless, son-of-a-cactus-humping butt monkey!!
Gemma Halliday Deadly Cool
During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.
Amit Kalantri Wealth of Words
He unlaced his arms and took a step forward. "You hurt?""Not badly." She tried to smile, but her lips only curved on one side. "My main problem is that I'm stuck to a cactus."(...)"How'd you manage to get tangled up with a cactus?" J.T. crouched beside her and started extricating her from the prickly plant." Well, believe it or not, I was on my way to apologize to you when a prairie-dog hole jumped up and grabbed my shoe heel.
Karen Witemeyer A Tailor-Made Bride
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 65 times in crossword archives (1948–2024).