Melon cactus


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Related to Melon cactus: Melocactus
(Bot.) A genus of cactaceous plants (Melocactus) having a fleshy and usually globose stem with the surface divided into spiny longitudinal ridges, and bearing at the top a prickly and woolly crown in which the small pink flowers are half concealed
The related genus Mamillaria, in which the stem is tubercled rather than ribbed, and the flowers sometimes large. See Illust. under Cactus.

See also: Melon, Melon

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.