cactus

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• UK: /ˈkæktəs/
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From taxonomic name Cactus, a name given in 1752 by Linnaeus for a genus of cacti (now superseded by the genus name Mammillaria), from Latin cactus, from Ancient Greek κάκτος (káktos, “cardoon”), possibly of Pre-Greek origin.

101 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: акактус (akʼakʼtʼus) — member of the Cactaceae
• Albanian: kaktus — member of the Cactaceae
• Amharic: ቁልቋል (ḳulḳwal) — member of the Cactaceae
• Arabic: صَبَّار (ṣabbār) — member of the Cactaceae
• Arabic: صبار (ṣabbār) — member of the Cactaceae
• Armenian: կակտուս (kaktus) — member of the Cactaceae
• Asturian: cactus — member of the Cactaceae
• Azerbaijani: kaktus — member of the Cactaceae
• Azerbaijani: maldili — member of the Cactaceae
• Basque: kaktus — member of the Cactaceae
• Belarusian: кактус (kaktus) — member of the Cactaceae
• Bulgarian: кактус (kaktus) — member of the Cactaceae
• Catalan: cactus — member of the Cactaceae
• Chakma: 𑄙𑄝𑄚 (dhābānā) — member of the Cactaceae
• Cherokee: ᎤᏂᎵᎡᏍᎩ (uniliesgi) — member of the Cactaceae
• Chinese Cantonese: 仙人掌 (sin1 jan4 zoeng2) — member of the Cactaceae
• Chinese: 刺球 (chhì-kiû) — member of the Cactaceae
• Chinese: 仙人球 (sian-lîn-kiû) — member of the Cactaceae
• Chinese: 仙人掌 (sian-jîn-chióng) — member of the Cactaceae
• Chinese Mandarin: 仙人掌 (xiānrénzhǎng) — member of the Cactaceae
• Czech: kaktus — member of the Cactaceae
• Danish: kaktus — member of the Cactaceae
• Dutch: cactus — member of the Cactaceae
• Esperanto: kakto — member of the Cactaceae
• Estonian: kaktus — member of the Cactaceae
• Faroese: kaktus — member of the Cactaceae
• Finnish: kaktus — member of the Cactaceae
• French: cactus — member of the Cactaceae
• West-Frisian: kaktus — member of the Cactaceae
• Galician: cacto — member of the Cactaceae
• Georgian: კაქტუსი (ḳakṭusi) — member of the Cactaceae
• German: Kaktus — member of the Cactaceae
• Greek: κάκτος (káktos) — member of the Cactaceae
• Hawaiian: pānini — member of the Cactaceae
• Hebrew: צבר (tsabar) — member of the Cactaceae
• Hindi: कैक्टस (kaikṭas) — member of the Cactaceae
• Hindi: नागफनी (nāgaphnī) — member of the Cactaceae
• Hungarian: kaktusz — member of the Cactaceae
• Icelandic: kaktus — member of the Cactaceae
• Ido: kaktuso — member of the Cactaceae
• Italian: cactus — member of the Cactaceae
• Japanese: 仙人掌 (saboten) — member of the Cactaceae
• Japanese: サボテン (saboten) — member of the Cactaceae
• Japanese: シャボテン (shaboten) — member of the Cactaceae
• Jeju: 떡꼿 (tteokkkot) — member of the Cactaceae
• Jeju: 벡년초 (bengnyeoncho) — member of the Cactaceae
• Jeju: 선인장 (seoninjang) — member of the Cactaceae
• Korean: 선인장 (seoninjang) — member of the Cactaceae
• Latvian: kaktuss — member of the Cactaceae
• Lithuanian: kaktusas — member of the Cactaceae
• Malagasy: raiketra — member of the Cactaceae
• Malagasy: raketa — member of the Cactaceae
• Malay: kaktus — member of the Cactaceae
• Maltese: kaktus — member of the Cactaceae
• Māori: rautete — member of the Cactaceae
• Mongolian: кактус (kaktus) — member of the Cactaceae
• Mongolian: аршийн нударга (aršiin nudarga) — member of the Cactaceae
• Mongolian: аршийн алга (aršiin alga) — member of the Cactaceae
• Navajo: hosh — member of the Cactaceae
• Norwegian Bokmål: kaktus — member of the Cactaceae
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kaktus — member of the Cactaceae
• Pashto: کیکټس — member of the Cactaceae
• Persian: صباره خنجری — member of the Cactaceae
• Plautdietsch: Kaktus — member of the Cactaceae
• Polish: kaktus — member of the Cactaceae
• Portuguese: cacto — member of the Cactaceae
• Portuguese: cato — member of the Cactaceae
• Portuguese: cáctus — member of the Cactaceae
• Punjabi: ਥੋਹਰ (thohar) — member of the Cactaceae
• Punjabi: تھور (thor) — member of the Cactaceae
• Romanian: cactus — member of the Cactaceae
• Russian: ка́ктус (káktus) — member of the Cactaceae
• Serbo-Croatian: кактус — member of the Cactaceae
• Serbo-Croatian: kaktus — member of the Cactaceae
• Sindhi: ڪئٽسڪ (kṭsk) — member of the Cactaceae
• Slovak: kaktus — member of the Cactaceae
• Slovene: kaktus — member of the Cactaceae
• Spanish: cacto — member of the Cactaceae
• Spanish: cactus — member of the Cactaceae
• Swahili: cactus — member of the Cactaceae
• Swedish: kaktus — member of the Cactaceae
• Tagalog: kakto — member of the Cactaceae
• Tagalog: kaktus — member of the Cactaceae
• Tamil: கள்ளி (kaḷḷi) — member of the Cactaceae
• Taos: łę́newą — member of the Cactaceae
• Thai: ตะบองเพชร (dtà-bɔɔng-pét) — member of the Cactaceae
• Thai: กระบองเพชร (grà-bɔɔng-pét) — member of the Cactaceae
• Tibetan: ཀླུ་ཥིང (klu ṣing) — member of the Cactaceae
• Tsonga: xihaha — member of the Cactaceae
• Tsonga: xikwenga — member of the Cactaceae
• Turkish: kaktüs — member of the Cactaceae
• Ukrainian: ка́ктус (káktus) — member of the Cactaceae
• Urdu: کیکٹس (kaikṭas) — member of the Cactaceae
• Uyghur: كاكتۇس (kaktus) — member of the Cactaceae
• Uzbek: qumanjir — member of the Cactaceae
• Vietnamese: xương rồng — member of the Cactaceae
• Volapük: kaktud — member of the Cactaceae
• Welsh: cactws — member of the Cactaceae
• Yiddish: קאַקטוס (kaktus) — member of the Cactaceae
• Yoruba: ọrọ́ — member of the Cactaceae
• Isthmus Zapotec: biaagueta — member of the Cactaceae