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CACTI

Definition: CACTI

CACTI

Plural

1. Of Cactus

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CACTI" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: CACTI

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

CACTI

EnglishCommon Agriculture-Customs Transmission of InformationFood & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: CACTI

English words defined with "CACTI": Acanthocereus, Aporocactus, Ariocarpuscarrion flower, Cereus, cholla, cochineal, cochineal insectDactylopius coccusEchinocereusFerocactusgenus Acanthocereus, genus Aporocactus, genus Ariocarpus, genus Cereus, genus Coryphantha, genus Echinocactus, genus Echinocereus, genus Epiphyllum, genus Ferocactus, genus Gymnocalycium, genus Harrisia, genus Hatiora, genus Hylocereus, genus Lemaireocereus, genus Lophophora, genus Mammillaria, genus Melocactus, genus Myrtillocactus, genus Pediocactus, genus Rhipsalis, genus Schlumbergera, genus Selenicereus, genus Stapelia, genus Zygocactus, GymnocalyciumHarrisia, Hatiora, HylocereusLemaireocereus, LophophoraMelocactus, Myrtillocactusnight-blooming cereus, nopalOpuntia chollaPediocactus, prickly pear, prickly pear cactusRhipsalisSchlumbergera, Selenicereus, slipper plant, slipper spurge, stapelia, starfish flowerZygocactus. (references)
Specialty definitions using "CACTI": ACANTHOCEREUS PITAJAYA. (references)
Non-English Usage: "CACTI" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Italian (cactuses).

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Modern Usage: CACTI

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Cross in the Cacti (1914)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: CACTI

DomainTitle

Books

  • 101 Essential Tips: Cacti & Succulents (reference)

  • Cacti of the Desert Southwest (reference)

  • Complete Book of Cacti & Succulents (reference)

  • Encyclopedia of Cacti and Succulents CD-ROM (reference)

  • Flowering Plants: Pokeweed, Four-O'Clocks, Carpetweeds, Cacti, Purslanes, Goosefoots, Pigweeds, and Pinks (Illustrated Flora of Illinois) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: CACTI

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Photo Album: CACTI

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A barbed-wire fence, Prickly pear cacti, and a cow in the background.Credit: Beth Perault.

Desert vegetation in the form of cacti and trees.Credit: Unknown.

A field of Prickly Pear Cacti and wildflowers in the Agua Fria National Monument.Credit: Christine Tincher.

Prickly Pear cacti grow all over the Agua Fria National Monument.Credit: Christine Tincher.

A scene with Prickly Pear cacti in the foreground and mountains in the background.Credit: Chris Tincher.

A desert tree and Prickly Pear cacti.Credit: Chris Tincher.

A large tree and some prickly pear cacti on the foreground.Credit: Chris Tincher.

Cacti and other desert plants growing alongside a road in the Grand Canyon-Parshant National Monument.Credit: Lynn Chamberlain.

Rocks, Cacti, and desert plants pepper the side of this mountian in the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument.Credit: Lynn Chamberlain.

Two Mountains from a valley in the background of this picture with cacti and other desert plants in the foreground.Credit: Lynn Chamberlain.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CACTI

"CACTI" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 60.98% of the time. "CACTI" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)60.98%2569,787
Noun (singular)31.71%1397,576
Noun (proper)7.32%3202,518
                    Total100.00%41N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: CACTI

Expressions using "CACTI": barrel cacti Coccus cacti. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: CACTI

Language Translations for "CACTI"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

仙人掌 (Cactus, Cactuses). (various references)

   

German

  

Kakteen (cactuses). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

인장 (Cactus, Cactuses). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acticay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

cactos. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cactus (CACTUS, Carlos addition for clustered terminal user agents), cactos (cactuses), pl. de cactus, personas solas. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

кактус (cactus). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: CACTI

Misspellings

"CACTI" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acci, acti, akti, caccia, Cacdp, cacia, Cacif, cacki, cact, cactic, caki, Cancri, canti, cantii, caoty, casati, casti, Catcote, cati, Catti, cauti, cauty, Cawte, Ccbi, cci, Ccmi, Cctu, ceci, cesti, cestui, ceti, Ciftci, cincta, clact, cocti, cract, Cuci, facti, iacta, Jacta, Mcactear, Shakti, Zakuti. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: CACTI

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-t"

-2 letters: act, ait, cat, tic.

-3 letters: ai, at, it, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-i-t"
 

+1 letter: acetic, arctic, cantic, lactic, tactic, tictac.

 

+2 letters: acmatic, acrotic, actinic, arctics, ascetic, ascitic, atactic, cactoid, calcite, caustic, chaotic, clastic, comatic, ectatic, octadic, practic, sciatic, tactics, tictacs.

 

+3 letters: accident, accredit, acentric, acetonic, acetylic, acidotic, aconitic, acoustic, acrostic, apractic, ascetics, atechnic, caducity, calcites, calcitic, canticle, capacity, carditic, carritch, caryatic, catchier, catching, catechin, cathodic, catholic, cationic, caustics, chiastic, chitchat, cicatrix, clastics, climatic, coacting, coaction, coactive, cobaltic, cocktail, cortical, cratonic, critical, cruciate, cuneatic, cuticula, cyanitic, cyanotic, dactylic, dicastic, didactic, ecstatic, galactic, hectical, lactonic, narcotic, occipita, oiticica, pasticci, practice, rachitic, scarcity, sciatica, sciatics, spiccato, staccati, tactical, thoracic, ticktack, trictrac, trochaic.

 

+4 letters: accenting, accepting, acceptive, accidents, accipiter, acclimate, acclivity, accosting, accredits, accreting, accretion, accretive, acoustics, acritarch, acrobatic, acrostics, anaclitic, anecdotic, anorectic, antarctic, anticrack, apodictic, apomictic, architect, ascetical, ataractic, autarchic, brecciate, cachectic, cacheting, canticles, capacitor, captaincy, casuistic, catabolic, catalatic, catalytic, catatonic, catchiest, catechins, catechism, catechist, catechize, categoric, catfacing, cathartic, cathectic, catholics, catoptric, chanciest, chitchats, chromatic, cicatrize, cinematic, circinate, circuital, circulate, cityscape, cladistic, climactic, coactions, cocaptain, cockatiel, cocktails, concavity, copacetic, copasetic, crabstick, cuticulae, cuticular, dactylics, desiccant, desiccate, diacritic, dialectic, didactics, eclamptic, ecstatics, encaustic, exsiccate, facticity, fascistic, geotactic, haecceity, inculcate, intricacy, isotactic, laccolith, narcotics, occipital, oiticicas, panmictic, pasticcio, practical, practiced, practicer, practices, practicum, sarcastic, scabietic, sceptical, schematic, sciaticas, spiccatos, stomachic, subarctic, succinate, syntactic, tactician, technical, ticktacks, tictacked, timocracy, trachytic, trictracs, trochaics, ultrachic, vaccinate.

 

+5 letters: accidental, accidently, accipiters, acclimated, acclimates, accounting, accoutring, accredited, accretions, accusation, accusative, acetylenic, achromatic, acoustical, acritarchs, acrobatics, acrostical, activistic, anchoritic, anorectics, anticancer, antichurch, apodeictic, apoplectic, archaistic, architects, arctically, articulacy, asceticism, astrocytic, ataractics, autocratic, bacitracin, backstitch, bacteremic, brecciated, brecciates, buccinator, cabalistic, cacciatore, cachinnate, cacomistle, caducities, calcitonin, canonicity, cantatrice, cantatrici, capacitate, capacities, capacitive, capacitors, caricature, carritches, catalectic, cataleptic, cataphoric, catatonics, catcalling, catchflies, catechesis, catechisms, catechists, catechized, catechizer, catechizes, catfacings, cathartics, cathecting, catholicoi, catholicon, catholicos, causticity, ceramicist, chalcocite, chiasmatic, chiliastic, chromatics, cicatrices, cicatrixes, cicatrized, cicatrizes, circulated, circulates, circulator, cityscapes, cladistics, classicist, cocaptains, cockatiels, cockatrice, cocktailed, cocreating, coenacting, colocating, comicality, compacting, compaction, complicate, concertina, conciliate, confiscate, consociate, contacting, contradict, cortically, corybantic, crabsticks, crackliest, critically, cryostatic, cunctation, cunctative, cytopathic, cytostatic, czarevitch, decametric, democratic, desiccants, desiccated, desiccates, desiccator, diacritics, dialectics, didactical, efficacity, electrical, encaustics, escharotic, excruciate, exsiccated, exsiccates, fantoccini, flaccidity, hectically, hypotactic, iconoclast, inaccurate, incapacity, inculcated, inculcates, inculcator, inductance, laccoliths, lactogenic, macrocytic, malolactic, matchstick, mobocratic, monocratic, nonascetic, occidental, occipitals, occupation, octarchies, pacificist, pacifistic, pancreatic, parachutic, paratactic, pasticcios, phagocytic, practicals, practicers, practicing, practicums, reaccredit, scarcities, schematics, schismatic, scholastic, scratchier, scratchily, scratching, seecatchie, stochastic, stomachics, subarctics, succinates, switchback, syntactics, tactically, tacticians, technicals, technician, tetrarchic, theocratic, ticktacked, tictacking, timocratic, tragicomic, tribrachic, uncritical, undidactic, vaccinated, vaccinates, vaccinator, watchcries, witchcraft.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CACTI


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 41 43 54 49

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    -.-.    -    ..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01000001 01000011 01010100 01001001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#67 &#84 &#73

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0043 0054 0049

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3735375443

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Translations: Modern
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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