"cholla" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Spanish cholla",
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  "etymology_text": "Spanish cholla, possibly from Old French cholle (“head”), of Germanic origin. Compare keel.",
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      "form": "chollas",
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        "plural"
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "jumping cholla"
        }
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          "ref": "1889 January 26, “Archæological camping in Arizona”, in American Architect and Architecture, volume 52, page 43",
          "text": "Throughout Arizona the floors of such caves are found covered with a deep bed of chollas.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1890 October 10, “A Series of Eggs of Palmer's Thrasher”, in The Ornithologist and Oölogist, volume 15, page 155",
          "text": "The cholla was two feet high, and six feet in diameter.",
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          "ref": "2009 February 26, Karen Crouse, “Woods Returns as He Left: A Winner”, in New York Times",
          "text": "On the front nine, Jones stuck to Woods like a cholla cactus.",
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        "Any of several species of cactus in the genus Cylindropuntia, having very spiny, cylindrical stem segments."
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          "word": "Cylindropuntia"
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          "code": "nv",
          "lang": "Navajo",
          "sense": "cactus",
          "word": "hosh aditsahii"
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          "code": "par",
          "lang": "Panamint",
          "sense": "cactus",
          "word": "wiyattampü"
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          "sense": "cactus",
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  "word": "cholla"
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  "etymology_text": "Spanish cholla, possibly from Old French cholle (“head”), of Germanic origin. Compare keel.",
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      "sense": "cactus",
      "word": "hosh aditsahii"
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      "lang": "Panamint",
      "sense": "cactus",
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      "sense": "cactus",
      "word": "atuq waqachi"
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      "word": "cholla"
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