Ariocarpus

prop. n.

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a genus of slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas.

Thesaurus

Noun

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Ariocarpus - slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas genus Ariocarpus caryophylloid dicot genus - genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers Cactaceae, cactus family, family Cactaceae - constituting the order Opuntiales Ariocarpus fissuratus, living rock - usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit; resembles the related mescal; northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States