echinocereus

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1. large genus of low-growing shrubby ribbed cacti of Mexico and southwestern United States (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	caryophylloid dicot genus,
definition	:	genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	hedgehog cereus,
definition	:	cactus of the genus Echinocereus (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	rainbow cactus,
definition	:	a stout cylindrical cactus of the southwest United States and adjacent Mexico (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	cactaceae, cactus family, family cactaceae,
definition	:	constituting the order Opuntiales (noun.plant)