prickly pear

See also: Prickly Pear

English

Prickly pear (Opuntia ovata)

Etymology

prickly +‎ pear, from the nature of the plant's fruit, which, like the cactus it grows on, has spines on its surface.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌpɹɪkli ˈpɛː/

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• Hyphenation: prick‧ly pear
• Rhymes: -ɛː
• Homophone: Prickly Pear

Noun

prickly pear (plural prickly pears)

1. Any of various spiny cacti of the genus Opuntia.
2. The fruit, often edible, of such a plant.

Synonyms

• Indian fig, cactus pear, desert pear

Derived terms

• Prickly Pear
• Prickly Pear Cays
• Prickly Pear Island

Translations

any of various spiny cacti of the genus Opuntia

• Afrikaans: turksvy (af)
• Amharic: ቁልቋል በለስ (ḳulḳʷal bäläs)
• Arabic: تِين شَوْكِيّ m (tīn šawkiyy), بَلَس m (balas) (Yemen), صُبَّار (ar) m (ṣubbār)

  Egyptian Arabic: تين شوكي m (tīn šūkī)

  Moroccan Arabic: هندية f (handiyya), كرموس هندي m (karmūs handi)

• Catalan: figuera de moro f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 仙人掌果 (zh) (xiānrénzhǎngguǒ)

• Czech: opuncie (cs) f
• Dutch: vijgcactus m
• Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: nehpalli
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: viikunakaktus
• French: figuier de Barbarie (fr) m
• German: Kaktusfeige (de) f, Feigenkaktus (de) m
• Greek: φραγκοσυκιά (el) f (fragkosykiá)
• Gujarati: નાગફણી (nāgaphṇī), હાથલો (gu) (hāthlo)
• Hebrew: צַבָּר (he) m (tzabár)
• Irish: piorra deilgneach m
• Italian: fico d'India (it) m, ficodindia (it) m
• Japanese: うちわさぼてん (uchiwa saboten)
• Kumeyaay: 'ehpaa
• Macedonian: опунтија f (opuntija)
• Maltese: bajtar tax-xewk m, bajtar tal-Indja m
• Nahuatl: nohpalli (nah)
• Navajo: hosh niteelí
• Polish: opuncja (pl) f
• Portuguese: figueira-da-Índia f
• Punjabi: ਨਾਗਫਨੀ f (nāgphanī)
• Quechua: tuna
• Russian: колю́чая гру́ша f (koljúčaja grúša), инде́йская смо́ква f (indéjskaja smókva)
• Sicilian: ficu d'Innia (scn) f, ficu 'i pala f
• Spanish: higo chumbo m, tuna (es) f, nopal (es) m, higuera de pala f, higuera de tuna f
• Telugu: నాగజెముడు (te) (nāgajemuḍu)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: opwntia m, gellygen bigog f, peren bigog f

cactus fruit

• Afrikaans: turksvy (af)
• Amharic: ቁልቋል በለስ (ḳulḳʷal bäläs)
• Arabic: تِين شَوْكِيّ m (tīn šawkiyy), بَلَس m (balas) (Yemen), صُبَّار (ar) m (ṣubbār)
• Catalan: figa de moro
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 仙人掌果 (zh) (xiānrénzhǎngguǒ)

• Dutch: cactusvijg (nl) f
• Finnish: kaktusviikuna
• French: figue de Barbarie (fr) f
• German: Kaktusfeige (de) f
• Greek: φραγκόσυκο (el) n (fragkósyko)
• Irish: piorra deilgneach m
• Italian: fico d'India (it) m
• Korean: 선인장속 (seoninjangsok)
• Ladino: sabra f
• Malagasy: raketa (mg), sakafon-drano
• Navajo: hosh bineestʼąʼ
• Polish: opuncja (pl) f
• Portuguese: figo-da-Índia m
• Russian: опу́нция (ru) f (opúncija), колю́чая гру́ша f (koljúčaja grúša), инде́йская смо́ква f (indéjskaja smókva)
• Sicilian: ficu d'Innia (scn) f, ficu 'i pala f
• Spanish: higo chumbo m, higo de pala m, higo de tuna m, tuna (es) f
• Swedish: kaktusfikon n
• Yucatec Maya: k'i'ix chak pak'aal

Further reading

• prickly pear on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Opuntia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies