"nopalry" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈnəʊp(ə)lɹi/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈnoʊpəlri/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-nopalry.wav [Southern-England] Forms: nopalries [plural]
Etymology: From nopal + -ry (variant of -ery), a variant of nopalery. Etymology templates: {{m|en|-ery}} -ery, {{suffix|en|nopal|ry|pos2=variant of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">-ery</i>}} nopal + -ry (variant of -ery), {{m|en|nopalery}} nopalery Head templates: {{en-noun}} nopalry (plural nopalries)
  1. Alternative spelling of nopalery Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: nopalery
    Sense id: en-nopalry-en-noun-p3bouIgt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ry

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1783, [Guillaume Thomas François] Raynal, “Of the Culture of the Cochineal”, in J[ohn] O[badiah] Justamond, transl., A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. […], new edition, volume III, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], book VI (Discovery of America. Conquest of Mexico; and Settlements of the Spaniards in that Part of the New World), page 354",
          "text": "This ſpecies [the wild cochineal] multiplies more readily, ſpreads further and faſter without any aſſiſtance; ſo that a nopalry is ſoon covered with them.\nAccording to the Oxford English Dictionary this is the earliest occurrence of the word in print.",
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          "text": "This was another experimental garden started under Dr. Berry as a ‘Nopalry’ or place for the rearing of the cochineal insect on cacti, which however, became a sort of experimental garden where exotic plants were received as they arrived in the Port of Madras and were nursed and looked after until they could be despatched to the interior stations.",
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