Cactuses

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cactus \Cac"tus\, n.; pl. E. {Cactuses}, {Cacti} (-t[imac]).
     [L., a kind of cactus, Gr. ??????.] (Bot.)
     Any plant of the order {Cactac[ae]}, as the prickly pear and
     the night-blooming cereus. See {Cereus}. They usually have
     leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered
     thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of


     America.
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     {Cactus wren} (Zool.), an American wren of the genus
        {Campylorhynchus}, of several species.
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