Crossword-Solution: NOPAL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nopal | n. | A cactaceous plant (Nopalea cochinellifera), originally Mexican, on which the cochineal insect feeds, and from which it is collected. The name is sometimes given to other species of Cactaceae. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NOPAL | anagram | NOLAP, PLANO, POLAN |
We have 12 clues for the answer “NOPAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A cactus, the prickly pear. | 1 answer |
| Cactus resembling a prickly pear | 1 answer |
| Cactus used in tacos | 1 answer |
| Cochineal cactus. | 1 answer |
| Red flowered cactus | 1 answer |
| Prickly cactus | 2 answers |
| Prickly pear cactus. | 2 answers |
| Cactus plant | 4 answers |
| type of cactus | 5 answers |
| prickly pear | 5 answers |
| Mexican cactus | 5 answers |
| Cactus | 18 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with NOPAL (5)
Across the bottom she outlined a bit of Sunland Desert she well remembered, in the foreground a bed of flat-leaved nopal, flowering red and yellow, the dark red prickly pears, edible, being a near relative of the fruits she had used in her salad.
Octavia Beaupree, née Van Dresser, stepped from the train at Nopal, her manner lost, for the moment, some of that easy certitude which had always marked her movements.
The light of the carriage lamps, running along the nopal hedges that crowned the bank on each side, flashed upon the scared faces of people standing aside in the road, sunk deep, like an English country lane, into the soft soil of the Campo.
They cowered; their eyes glistened very big for a second; and then the light, running on, fell upon the half-denuded roots of a big tree, on another stretch of nopal hedge, caught up another bunch of faces glaring back apprehensively.
Cumana, Coro, the island of Margareta, and Curassao, are the parts of South America that abound most in plants of the nopal family.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1952–2023).