"Easter cactus" meaning in English

See Easter cactus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: Easter cactus es [plural], Easter cacti [plural], Easter cactus [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|Easter cactuses|Easter cacti|Easter cactus}} Easter cactus (plural Easter cactuses or Easter cacti or Easter cactus)
  1. A type of cactus grown as an ornamental plant, Schlumbergera gaertneri. Categories (lifeform): Cacti Related terms: Christmas cactus

Download JSON data for Easter cactus meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Easter cactus es",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Easter cacti",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Easter cactus",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Easter cactuses",
        "2": "Easter cacti",
        "3": "Easter cactus"
      },
      "expansion": "Easter cactus (plural Easter cactuses or Easter cacti or Easter cactus)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Cacti",
          "orig": "en:Cacti",
          "parents": [
            "Caryophyllales order plants",
            "Succulents",
            "Plants",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 December 22, Trish Grenfell, “Ask the Master Gardener”, in Colfax Record",
          "text": "The flowers of the Easter cactus are rounder and more daisy-like than tubular types of the other two cacti. They come in a broad range of spring colors: yellows, pinks, peaches, reds and white.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of cactus grown as an ornamental plant, Schlumbergera gaertneri."
      ],
      "id": "en-Easter_cactus-en-noun-u6HyqDZi",
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Christmas cactus"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Easter cactus"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Easter cactus es",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Easter cacti",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Easter cactus",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Easter cactuses",
        "2": "Easter cacti",
        "3": "Easter cactus"
      },
      "expansion": "Easter cactus (plural Easter cactuses or Easter cacti or Easter cactus)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Christmas cactus"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)",
        "en:Cacti"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 December 22, Trish Grenfell, “Ask the Master Gardener”, in Colfax Record",
          "text": "The flowers of the Easter cactus are rounder and more daisy-like than tubular types of the other two cacti. They come in a broad range of spring colors: yellows, pinks, peaches, reds and white.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of cactus grown as an ornamental plant, Schlumbergera gaertneri."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Easter cactus"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.