nopals

Farther up the hillside was mostly boulders and nopals and brush.

Tlaxcala State: traveling the Central High Plains of Mexico 2006

Farther up the hillside was mostly boulders and nopals and brush.

Tlaxcala State: traveling the Central High Plains of Mexico 2006

Farther up the hillside was mostly boulders and nopals and brush.

Tlaxcala State: traveling the Central High Plains of Mexico 2006

Only the strange purple prickly pear cactus, the "old men" cactus so-named for their spines that look like white hair, the crawling nopals that animals feed on, and heath are present.

The magnetic deserts of the world - Zone of Silence, Mexico, gateway to the universe 2001

Only the strange purple prickly pear cactus, the "old men" cactus so-named for their spines that look like white hair, the crawling nopals that animals feed on, and heath are present.

The magnetic deserts of the world - Zone of Silence, Mexico, gateway to the universe 2001

When day broke we had left the railroad, and were jolting along through a parched sandy plain, thinly covered with acacias, nopals, and other kinds of cactus, bignonias, and the great tree-euphorbia, with which we had been so familiar in Cuba, with its smooth limbs and huge white flowers.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

Four moons Many Swans abode on the plain, eating mesquite pods and old dried nopals, but he kept away from the Mesa lest the thing he had with him should be beyond his strength to hold.

Many Swans: Sun Myth of the North American Indians 1920

The snowy exterior of the whitewashed church with its cool arcade and its walled terraces crowned with nopals, reminded him of an African mosque.

The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

She owned a house in Naples, -- at Posilipo, that is -- a _villino_, in pink stucco, a dainty little place with fig trees, nopals and parasol pines, that ran in a grove down a steep promontory to the sea I They would fish in the bay there -- it was as smooth and blue as a looking-glass!

The Torrent Entre Naranjos Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

Nabogame (in Tepehuane, Navógeri, "where nopals [navó] grow").

Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan Carl Lumholtz 1886