usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit; resembles the related mescal; northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States
any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines
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