saguaro

sa·gua·ro  (s-gwär, -wär) also sa·hua·ro (s-wär)

n. pl. sa·gua·ros also sa·hua·ros

1. A very large cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) of the southwest United States and northern Mexico, having ribbed upward-curving branches, white funnel-shaped flowers, and edible red fruit.

2. The fruit of this cactus.

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[American Spanish, probably of Piman origin.]

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saguaro - extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit Carnegiea gigantea, sahuaro cactus - any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines Carnegiea, genus Carnegiea - caryophylloid dicot genus with only one species: saguaro