Cactoid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cactoid is a noun meaning A member of the cactus subfamily Cactoideae.
Meaning
A member of the cactus subfamily Cactoideae.
More Meanings
- (topology) A locally connected continuum that is the closure of the union of an at most countable number of spheres and simple arcs, of which every simple closed contour is contained in one and only one of the spheres.
Example Sentences
It is well known that a Peano space is a cactoid if and only if each of its true cyclic elements is a 2-sphere.
Word Forms
- cactoids
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cactophily, cladode, cycadophyte, cycad, caryophylliid, citroid.
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