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How to say prickly pear in other languages?
Prickly pear in Spanish, French, German, Italian…
Common English name: mission cactus, nopal, prickly pear, cactus plant. Indian fig, barbary fig (fruit).
Common name in other languages:
– Spanish: nopal, nopalera, tuna, chumbera, higuera de chumbo, pita, higuera de pala, palera, tunera, alquitira, cardón de México, choya, tasajillo.
Fruits: higos picones, higos chumbos, tunas.
– Catalan: figuera blade, figuera Moor, figuera Packed, Figuerassa, xumbos Figuera, figueres paleres.
– Euskera: indipikondo, indiapiko
– Galician and Portuguese: Figueira da India, Figueira da Barbaria, chumbeira, tabaibeira, Piteira, figueira tuna, palm forrageira (Brazil)
– French: figuier de Barbarie, figuier d’Inde, d’Espagne figuier
– Italian: fico d’India, ficodindia, but pungent, ficudinnia
– German: Indischer Feigenkaktus, Kaktusfeigen
- Scientific name: Opuntia ficus-indica
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