No"pal (?), n. [Mexican nopalli.] Bot.
A cactaceous plant (Nopalea cochinellifera), originally Mexican, on which the cochineal insect feeds, and from which it is collected. The name is sometimes given to other species of Cactaceae.
© Webster 1913.
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