Prickly pear (Opuntia ovata)
From prickly + pear, from the nature of the plant's fruit, which, like the cactus it grows on, has spines on its surface.
prickly pear (plural prickly pears)
- Any of various spiny cacti of the genus Opuntia.
- The fruit, often edible, of such a plant.
any of various spiny cacti of the genus Opuntia
- Afrikaans: turksvy (af)
- Amharic: ቁልቋል በለስ (ḳulḳʷal bäläs)
- Arabic: تِين شَوْكِيّ m (tīn šawkiyy), بَلَس m (balas) (Yemen), صُبَّار (ar) m (ṣubbār)
- Egyptian Arabic: تين شوكي m (tīn šūkī)
- Moroccan Arabic: هندية f (handiyya), كرموس هندي m (karmūs handi)
- Catalan: figuera de moro f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 仙人掌果 (zh) (xiānrénzhǎngguǒ)
- Czech: opuncie (cs) f
- Dutch: vijgcactus m
- Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: nehpalli
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: viikunakaktus
- French: figuier de Barbarie (fr) m
- German: Kaktusfeige (de) f, Feigenkaktus (de) m
- Greek: φραγκοσυκιά (el) f (fragkosykiá)
- Gujarati: નાગફણી (nāgaphṇī), હાથલો (gu) (hāthlo)
- Hebrew: צַבָּר (he) m (tzabár)
- Irish: piorra deilgneach m
- Italian: fico d'India (it) m, ficodindia (it) m
- Japanese: うちわさぼてん (uchiwa saboten)
- Kumeyaay: 'ehpaa
- Macedonian: опунтија f (opuntija)
- Maltese: bajtar tax-xewk m, bajtar tal-Indja m
- Nahuatl: nohpalli (nah)
- Navajo: hosh niteelí
- Polish: opuncja (pl) f
- Portuguese: figueira-da-Índia f
- Punjabi: ਨਾਗਫਨੀ f (nāgphanī)
- Quechua: tuna
- Russian: колю́чая гру́ша f (koljúčaja grúša), инде́йская смо́ква f (indéjskaja smókva)
- Sicilian: ficu d'Innia (scn) f, ficu 'i pala f
- Spanish: higo chumbo m, tuna (es) f, nopal (es) m, higuera de pala f, higuera de tuna f
- Telugu: నాగజెముడు (te) (nāgajemuḍu)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: opwntia m, gellygen bigog f, peren bigog f
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