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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Mexican

nopalli

(Bot.)

A cactaceous plant (

Nopalea cochinellifera

), originally Mexican, on which the cochineal insect feeds, and from which it is collected. The name is sometimes given to other species of

Cactaceae

Noun.

A Plant of the genus Cactus, from which the cochineal is collected in Mexico; Indian fig or raquette. The fruit resembles a fig.