saguaro
pronunciation
How to pronounce saguaro in British English:
UK [səˈgwɑ:rəʊ]
How to pronounce saguaro in American English:
US [səˈgwɑroʊ]
-
- Noun:
- 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
Word Origin
- saguaro (n.)
- type of large branching columnar cactus of the North American desert, 1856, from Mexican Spanish, from a native name of unknown origin, perhaps from Yaqui (Sonoran).
Example
- 1. A short drive to the west is the saguaro national park , home to cartoon-style cacti .
- 2. Tour fare includes saguaro , white sands , lake powell , petrified forest national park entrance fee .
- 3. I saw my first joshua tree and my first saguaro yesterday , and many other interesting desert plants .
- 4. This photo shows something normal in the cowboys country many years ago , people could carry pistols and this saguaro was a shooting practice target .
- 5. It was suddenly no problem to model a chaotic , coevolutionary ecosystem on a personal computer , and see that , hey , it acts very much like the odd behavior of a saguaro forest or a prairie savanna on the march .