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Pitahaya
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Pit`a`ha´ya
n.1.(Bot.) A cactaceous shrub (Cereus Pitajaya) of tropical America, which yields a delicious fruit.
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Noun1.Pitahaya - cactus of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having edible juicy fruitpitahaya - cactus of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having edible juicy fruit
pitahaya - highly colored edible fruit of pitahaya cactus having bright red juice; often as large as a peach
cactus - any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines
2.pitahaya - highly colored edible fruit of pitahaya cactus having bright red juice; often as large as a peach
edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh
Acanthocereus pentagonus, Acanthocereus tetragonus, pitahaya, pitahaya cactus - cactus of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having edible juicy fruit


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