• n. [園藝] 仙人掌

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cactus

cactus: [17] Cactus comes via Latin from Greek káktos, which was the name of the cardoon, a plant of the thistle family with edible leafstalks. Cactus originally had that meaning in English too, and it was not until the 18th century that the Swedish botanist Linnaeus applied the term to a family of similarly prickly plants.

cactus (n.)

c. 1600, from Latin cactus "cardoon," from Greek kaktos, name of a type of prickly plant of Sicily (the Spanish artichoke), perhaps of pre-Hellenic origin. Modern meaning is 18c., because Linnaeus gave the name to a group of plants he thought were related to this but are not.

1. Researchers observed one bird impale a rodent on a cactus.

研究人員觀察到一只鳥把一只嚙齒動物釘在一棵仙人掌上。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The road winds for miles through parched earth, scrub and cactus.

公路蜿蜒數(shù)英里，穿過炙烤的大地、灌木叢和仙人掌。

來自柯林斯例句

3. It was the first year that the cactus had produced flowers.

這是這棵仙人掌第一年開花.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. Cactus is a type of green desert plant.

仙人掌是一種綠色的沙漠植物.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. The giant cactus is the vegetable skycraper.

高大的仙人掌是植物界巨人.

來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》