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(botany, rare, obsolete) Belonging to the family Opuntiaceae (now mostly subfamily Opuntioideae in Cactaceae)..
Early illustrations of opuntiaceous seeds: in his famous "Cactaceae of the Boundary" Engelmann (1859) provided the plate reproduced on the next page illustrating seeds and embryos of various North American (platy-) opuntias and cylindropuntias.
Use opuntiaceous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Opuntiaceous means (botany, rare, obsolete) Belonging to the family Opuntiaceae (now mostly subfamily Opuntioideae in Cactaceae)..
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Early illustrations of opuntiaceous seeds: in his famous "Cactaceae of the Boundary" Engelmann (1859) provided the plate reproduced on the next page illustrating seeds and embryos of various North American (platy-) opuntias and cylindropuntias.
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