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発音

• IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɔɪ.ə/, enPR: choiʹə
• 韻: -ɔɪə

名詞

cholla (plural chollas)

1. Any of several species of cactus in the genus Cylindropuntia, having very spiny, cylindrical stem segments.
   • 1889 January 26, “Archæological camping in Arizona”, in American Architect and Architecture, volume 52, page 43:

     Throughout Arizona the floors of such caves are found covered with a deep bed of chollas.

   • 1890 October, “A Series of Eggs of Palmer's Thrasher”, in The Ornithologist and Oölogist, volume 15, page 155:

     The cholla was two feet high, and six feet in diameter.

   • 1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter 17, in Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC:

     The terrain was thick with cholla and clumps of it clung to the horses with spikes that would drive through a bootsole to the bones within […]

   • 2009 February 26, Karen Crouse, “Woods Returns as He Left: A Winner”, in New York Times‎:

     On the front nine, Jones stuck to Woods like a cholla cactus.

派生語

• jumping cholla (Cylindropuntia fulgida)

参照

• cholla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cylindropuntia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Cylindropuntia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons