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English
Adjective
cactussy (comparative more cactussy, superlative most cactussy)
- Alternative form of cactusy.
1902, May Crommelin, chapter XXI, in Her Faithful Knight: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: A L Burt Company, , →OCLC, book III, page 180:Really, Alice, it is a most wonderful tree; for I have been trying to count how many other plants are growing upon it, ferns and cactussy things.
1960, Clifford Geertz, quoting a man, “ Sorcery”, in The Religion of Java, New York, N.Y.: The Free Press; London: Collier-Macmillan Limited, published 1969, →LCCN, part one (The “Abangan” Variant), pages 109–110:She also showed me, in each corner of the house, a sort of cactussy plant with big thorns which was to keep the spirits away that were being sent her by the evil coffee shop owner and his wife.
2008, Kes Gray, “The Rimes at The Limes”, in Ultravores, Rimes & Watt Watts (Nelly the Monster Sitter), London: Hodder Children’s Books, →ISBN, section 7, page 155:‘What’s aloe vera?’ she asked. / ‘It’s the cactussy-looking plant on the window ledge in the kitchen,’ said her mum.