cactus – English noun declension

English noun forms of cactus

Noun: cactus
Singularcactus
Pluralcacti; cactuses; cactusses; cactus

Sample Sentences

  • On the mountains a few junipers and piñons are found, and cactuses, agave, and yuccas, low, fleshy plants with bayonets and thorns. [1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:]
  • This was another experimental garden started under Dr. Berry as a ‘Nopalry’ or place for the rearing of the cochineal insect on cacti, which however, became a sort of experimental garden where exotic plants were received as they arrived in the Port of Madras and were nursed and looked after until they could be despatched to the interior stations. [1960, A. K. Yegna Narayan Aiyer, P. Abraham, Cultivation of Cloves in India (I.C.A.R. Bulletin), New Delhi: Indian Council of Agricultural Research, →OCLC, page 5:]
  • Three years later, the unwatered cactus was still about two feet tall, a dark green color. The watered cactus was a paler green, its trunk visibly swollen with moisture. It had grown to be over five feet tall. [2013, Leslie Morgan Steiner, The Baby Chase:]

Nouns inflected like cactus

ladyfinger cactus, cactus,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Pre-Greekder.?
3. Ancient Greek κάκτος (káktos)bor.
4. Latin cactusbor.
5. Translingual Cactusbor.
6. English cactus
7. From taxonomic name Cactus, a name given in 1752 by Linnaeus for a genus of cacti (now superseded by the genus name Mammillaria), from Latin cactus, from Ancient Greek κάκτος (káktos, “cardoon”), possibly of Pre-Greek origin. See: Latin Nouns 'cactus', Ancient Greek Nouns 'κάκτος'.