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nopaleries

nopaleries is the plural of nopalery.

Meaning of nopalery

Noun

nopalery (plural nopaleries)

  1. (historical) A plantation of nopal (a prickly pear cactus of the genus Opuntia, especially Opuntia cochinellifera) used as food for the cochineal insect (Dactylopius coccus), which is raised to produce carmine dye.
    • This ſpecies [the wild cochineal] multiplies more readily, ſpreads further and faſter without any aſſiſtance; ſo that a nopalry is ſoon covered with them.1783, [Guillaume Thomas François] Raynal, “Of the Culture of the Cochineal”, in J[ohn] O[badiah] Justamond, transl., A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the...

Questions about nopaleries

What is nopaleries the plural of?
Nopaleries is the plural of nopalery.

Words near nopaleries in the dictionary

  1. NOP sled
  2. NOP sleds
  3. NOP slide
  4. NOP slides
  5. nopal
  6. nopaleries
  7. nopalery
  8. nopales
  9. nopaline
  10. nopalito
  11. nopalitos

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