mandacaru — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A cactus, Cereus jamacaru, native to central and eastern Brazil.

   Examples

   The thought of vengeance helped him survive the weeks he spent wandering aimlessly about a desert wasteland bristling with mandacarus.

   But the rest of her body shivered, mandacaru cactus thorns penetrated the flesh that had been half-eaten away by the disease.

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   But a tree—if I can call it that—that draws my attention is the mandacaru, a columnar cactus native to northeastern Brazil.