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Noun
monk's head (plural monk's heads)
- (now rare) The dandelion.
- A cactus of the genus Melocactus, endemic to Brazil.
1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 538:[A] quarter of a goat is going for thirty and forty milreis, a loaf of hard brown sugar for twenty, a cupful of manioc flour for five, an imbuzeiro root or a ‘monk's head’ cactus with edible pulp for one and even two milreis.
2008, Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Seamstress:Across the front flaps of bornais and along the cracked brims of the men's hats, she sewed green appliquéd circles resembling the monk's-head cactus.