cholla
English
Noun
cholla (plural chollas)
- Any of several species of cactus in the genus Cylindropuntia, having very spiny, cylindrical stem segments.
- 1889 January 26, “Archæological camping in Arizona”, in American Architect and Architecture, volume 52, page 43:
- Throughout Arizona the floors of such caves are found covered with a deep bed of chollas.
- 1890 October 1, “A Series of Eggs of Palmer's Thrasher”, in The Ornithologist and Oölogist, volume 15, page 155:
- The cholla was two feet high, and six feet in diameter.
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Derived terms
- jumping cholla
Translations
cactus
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Spanish
Etymology
Possibly from Old French cholle (“head”), from a Germanic origin (compare English keel).
See also
cholla on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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