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Opuntia vs Cactoid - What's the difference?

opuntia | cactoid |

As nouns the difference between opuntia and cactoid

is that opuntia is Opuntia, a genus of cactus that includes such cacti as the prickly pear and xoconostle while cactoid is a member of the cactus subfamily Cactoideae.

opuntia

English

(wikipedia opuntia)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Opuntia , a genus of cactus that includes such cacti as the prickly pear and xoconostle.

    • Anagrams

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    cactoid

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A member of the cactus subfamily Cactoideae.
  • (topology)
  • * 1951 , John William Theodore Youngs, The Representation Problem for Fréchet Surfaces (page 27)
    • 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.