cactus

• n. [園芸] サボテン

語源は不明。

cactus

cactus: [17] Cactus comes via Latin from Greek káktos, which was the name of the cardoon, a plant of the thistle family with edible leafstalks. Cactus originally had that meaning in English too, and it was not until the 18th century that the Swedish botanist Linnaeus applied the term to a family of similarly prickly plants.

cactus (n.)

c. 1600, from Latin cactus "cardoon," from Greek kaktos, name of a type of prickly plant of Sicily (the Spanish artichoke), perhaps of pre-Hellenic origin. Modern meaning is 18c., because Linnaeus gave the name to a group of plants he thought were related to this but are not.

1. Researchers observed one bird impale a rodent on a cactus .

研究者は鳥が齧歯動物をサボテンに釘付けにするのを観察した。

2.The road winds for miles through parched earth，scrub and cactus .

道路は数マイル蛇行して、炙った大地、茂み、サボテンを通り抜けた。

3.It was the first year that the cactus had produced flowers.

このサボテンの最初の年の開花です。

4. Cactus is a type of green desert plant.

サボテンは緑色の砂漠植物である。

5.The giant cactus is the vegetable skycraper.

大きなサボテンは植物界の巨人である。