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| has gloss | (noun) cactus having yellow flowers and purple fruits nopal, Opuntia lindheimeri |
| has gloss | eng: Nopales (from the Nahuatl word nōpalli for the pads, or nostle, from the Nahuatl word nōchtli for the fruit) are a vegetable made from the young cladophyll (pad) segments of prickly pear, carefully peeled to remove the spines. These fleshy pads are flat and about hand-sized. They can be purple or green. They are particularly common in their native Mexico, where the plant is eaten commonly and regularly forms part of a variety of Mexican cuisine dishes. Farmed nopales are most often of the species Opuntia ficus-indica, although the pads of almost all Opuntia species are edible. |
| lexicalization | eng: nopal |
| lexicalization | eng: Opuntia lindheimeri |
| subclass of | (noun) cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock prickly pear, prickly pear cactus |
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| has gloss | ita: Il Nopal (dal termine nahuatl nōpalli, foglie, o da nōchtli, frutta) è una verdura tratta da giovani segmenti dellopuntia, noti come cladodi, attentamente puliti per rimuovere le spine. Il nopal è particolarmente comune in Messico, suo paese dorigine. |
| lexicalization | ita: nopal |
| Classical Nahuatl | |
| lexicalization | nci: nohpalli |
| Castilian | |
| lexicalization | spa: Nopal |
| lexicalization | spa: tuna |
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| lexicalization | spa: nopal |
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| similar | e/Nopal |
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| media:img | Nopal cacti in Merced.JPG |
| media:img | Nopal11.jpg |
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