Definitions for chollas

chollas chol·la

Spelling: [chohl-yah, -yuh; Spanish chaw-yah]
IPA: /ˈtʃoʊl yɑ, -yə; Spanish ˈtʃɔ yɑ/

Chollas is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in chollas (achllos).

Definitions for chollas

noun

  1. any of several spiny treelike cacti belonging to the genus Opuntia, especially O. fulgida of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having knobby outgrowths and yellow spines.

Origin of chollas

1855-60, Americanism; Mexican Spanish cholla head (perhaps Old French (dial.) cholle ball keel1

Examples for chollas

At first our road lay through low mountains, in valleys abounding in cholla cactus.

Among these the cholla is at once one of the most fascinating and the most exasperating.

The dried heaps of cholla stirred as if unseen paws had pressed them.

As they reached the open trail, thrush and to-hee fluttered from the cholla.

cholla (Opuntia fulgida) ranges from Nevada southward into Mexico.

Very cautiously a man emerged from behind a clump of cholla.

From three to six feet tall, resembling cholla, with long, cylindrical joints and whitish spines.

She had come thus far, and had stepped into a bed of cholla.

So if you are to see this phenomenon you will have to be on time, for cholla never wait.

He had scratches on his wrist, maybe from a cholla cactus or from sleeping under a mesquite tree.

Word Value for chollas
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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