Cactus
noun
A plant that grows in dry places like deserts. It has thick stem and needles or spikes instead of leaves.
There are many types of cactus plants in the Arizona desert.
Often appears as...
- cactus plant
- cactus garden
noun
A piece of software that is hard to alter once it has been written.
The code for that system is a real cactus. Changing it would be a nightmare.
Often appears as...
- cactus code
- documentation cactus
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Technical
noun
A plant that grows in dry places like deserts. It has thick stem and needles or spikes instead of leaves.
There are many types of cactus plants in the Arizona desert.
Often appears as...
- cactus plant
- cactus garden
noun
A piece of software that is hard to alter once it has been written.
The code for that system is a real cactus. Changing it would be a nightmare.
Often appears as...
- cactus code
- documentation cactus
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Desert Association
Connect 'cactus' with dry environments to remember their typical habitat.
When I think of a cactus, I picture the vast, sunbaked desert.
Pro Tip 2/3Symbolic Meaning
A cactus can symbolize endurance and resilience in tough conditions.
You're like a cactus, thriving despite the hard times.
Pro Tip 3/3Vivid Imagery
Use 'cactus' to create strong images in descriptive writing or metaphors.
His personality was prickly as a cactus, keeping everyone at a distance.
Pro Tip 1/3Desert Association
Connect 'cactus' with dry environments to remember their typical habitat.
When I think of a cactus, I picture the vast, sunbaked desert.
Pro Tip 2/3Symbolic Meaning
A cactus can symbolize endurance and resilience in tough conditions.
You're like a cactus, thriving despite the hard times.
Pro Tip 3/3Vivid Imagery
Use 'cactus' to create strong images in descriptive writing or metaphors.
His personality was prickly as a cactus, keeping everyone at a distance.
Pro Tip 1/3Desert Association
Connect 'cactus' with dry environments to remember their typical habitat.
When I think of a cactus, I picture the vast, sunbaked desert.
Pro Tip 2/3Symbolic Meaning
A cactus can symbolize endurance and resilience in tough conditions.
You're like a cactus, thriving despite the hard times.
Pro Tip 3/3Vivid Imagery
Use 'cactus' to create strong images in descriptive writing or metaphors.
His personality was prickly as a cactus, keeping everyone at a distance.
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Video examples
Nature's fortress: How...
reducing the plant's core temperature during the heat of the day. Then, at night, when air temperatures plummet, the spines act as an insulating layer, keeping the cactus from cooling down too much. These functions are just as important, if not more,
Video examples
TIL: If You Like...
friends bats pollinate many many plants that are incredibly important if you've ever seen a wild west movie with those great big cacti growing up there they're there because the bats have been pollinating and dispersing the seeds of those cacti
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Millennials are the...
now the weather there is unbearably hot so we're running out of water some say we have just enough for a year supply so most residents there are switching to drought tolerant plants which by the way are not just cacti but we can't just not
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Safari Live - Day 154 PIPE...
and tapping into the underground water however having said that a zero fatigue plant does not need to be tapping into the underground water in such conditions so plants like your cactuses and your euphorbias although not these euphorbias
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Diane Cook & Len...
which she did six times and but by the time number six rolled around she also had developed a passion for gardening she was a very eccentric person and she is quite excessive in her garden design so why have two golden barrel cactus
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Confiscated Plants Get...
growing rare recently discovered those are the hot items so all the plant collectors really want to have those plants they may or may not think very carefully about where they came from things like orchids and cacti and
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How we became sisters PIPE...
It fed on cactus and stars, but it kept being delayed. "It's not time," they said. The dream grew impatient, broke water, extracted from its mother in a bed of wrecked strawberries.
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Grand Canyon Adventure:...
- Our encounters with cactus didn't help. I'll get em. - I fell into a barrel cactus, and now I got all these weird lumps on my arm.
Video examples
Birds Feast on Bee Swarm...
among as many spines as possible to protect their chicks. They're all waiting to cash in on the cactus bee gold rush.
Video examples
Epic Grand Canyon Hike:...
that that look where we've come from yeah look where he comes from nowhere encounters with cactus didn't help
Video examples
Nature's fortress: How...
reducing the plant's core temperature during the heat of the day. Then, at night, when air temperatures plummet, the spines act as an insulating layer, keeping the cactus from cooling down too much. These functions are just as important, if not more,
Video examples
TIL: If You Like...
friends bats pollinate many many plants that are incredibly important if you've ever seen a wild west movie with those great big cacti growing up there they're there because the bats have been pollinating and dispersing the seeds of those cacti
Video examples
Millennials are the...
now the weather there is unbearably hot so we're running out of water some say we have just enough for a year supply so most residents there are switching to drought tolerant plants which by the way are not just cacti but we can't just not
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 154 PIPE...
and tapping into the underground water however having said that a zero fatigue plant does not need to be tapping into the underground water in such conditions so plants like your cactuses and your euphorbias although not these euphorbias
Video examples
Diane Cook & Len...
which she did six times and but by the time number six rolled around she also had developed a passion for gardening she was a very eccentric person and she is quite excessive in her garden design so why have two golden barrel cactus
Video examples
Confiscated Plants Get...
growing rare recently discovered those are the hot items so all the plant collectors really want to have those plants they may or may not think very carefully about where they came from things like orchids and cacti and
Video examples
How we became sisters PIPE...
It fed on cactus and stars, but it kept being delayed. "It's not time," they said. The dream grew impatient, broke water, extracted from its mother in a bed of wrecked strawberries.
Video examples
Grand Canyon Adventure:...
- Our encounters with cactus didn't help. I'll get em. - I fell into a barrel cactus, and now I got all these weird lumps on my arm.
Video examples
Birds Feast on Bee Swarm...
among as many spines as possible to protect their chicks. They're all waiting to cash in on the cactus bee gold rush.
Video examples
Epic Grand Canyon Hike:...
that that look where we've come from yeah look where he comes from nowhere encounters with cactus didn't help
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Quote examples
Gary Vaynerchuk
American Businessman
My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.
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Alejandro Jodorowsky
Chilean Director
In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider's web. It shows that the truth sticks inside.
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Katherine Dunham
American Dancer
A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.
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Stjepan Hauser
Croatian Musician
Very often, people are obsessed with what others think of them. It's like if a flower wants to be a cactus or a palm but it's not. A flower is a flower, and that's enough. That's all you have to do is be a flower.
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Travis Browne
People find beauty in the desert. I don't know where they're looking because I haven't found it. It's ugly. It's nasty. It's dirt. It's desert. It's sand. It's rock. It's cactus. It's lizards and snakes.
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Takashi Murakami
Japanese Artist
I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.
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James Turrell
American Artist
The cardones cactus is very similar to saguaro cactus in Arizona. These cacti only grow in very specific, particular places.
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Hope Jahren
American Scientist
A cactus doesn't live in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn't killed it yet.
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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
American Author
Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.
Quote examples
Brad Paisley
American Musician
Something about cactuses and rock music is a good combination.
Quote examples
Gary Vaynerchuk
American Businessman
My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.
Quote examples
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Chilean Director
In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider's web. It shows that the truth sticks inside.
Quote examples
Katherine Dunham
American Dancer
A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.
Quote examples
Stjepan Hauser
Croatian Musician
Very often, people are obsessed with what others think of them. It's like if a flower wants to be a cactus or a palm but it's not. A flower is a flower, and that's enough. That's all you have to do is be a flower.
Quote examples
Travis Browne
People find beauty in the desert. I don't know where they're looking because I haven't found it. It's ugly. It's nasty. It's dirt. It's desert. It's sand. It's rock. It's cactus. It's lizards and snakes.
Quote examples
Takashi Murakami
Japanese Artist
I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.
Quote examples
James Turrell
American Artist
The cardones cactus is very similar to saguaro cactus in Arizona. These cacti only grow in very specific, particular places.
Quote examples
Hope Jahren
American Scientist
A cactus doesn't live in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn't killed it yet.
Quote examples
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
American Author
Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.
Quote examples
Brad Paisley
American Musician
Something about cactuses and rock music is a good combination.
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