Definitions for saguaros

saguaros sa·gua·ro

Spelling: [suh-gwahr-oh, -wahr-oh]
IPA: /səˈgwɑr oʊ, -ˈwɑr oʊ/

Saguaros is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 176 anagrams from letters in saguaros (aagorssu).

Definitions for saguaros

noun

  1. a tall, horizontally branched cactus, Carnegiea (or Cereus) gigantea, of Arizona and neighboring regions, yielding a useful wood and bearing an edible fruit: still locally common, though some populations have been reduced.

Origin of saguaros

1855-60, Americanism; Mexican Spanish saguaro, sahuaro, said to be Opata (now extinct Uto-Aztecan language of Sonora)

Examples for saguaros

The little unincorporated community sits in a lonely stretch of hot desert amidst black rocks and saguaro cactuses.

The saguaro has a skeleton of woody ribs bound together by tough, woody fibers.

That is how the saguaro and the palo verde came to be on the mountains and the desert.

Of the cactus family, the most conspicuous is the saguaro, or giant cactus, which frequently attains the height of fifty feet.

During his studies the appearance of the first white-wing preceded the opening of the first saguaro flower by two days.

The long beak apparently is used for nectar-feeding in flowers of the saguaro Cactus.

Those are saguaro cactuses…the big ones…birds make holes in them and build their nests inside.

When fully grown, saguaro are 15 meters tall and weigh as much as 10 tons.

On her other side was a wizened little old fellow with a wrinkled face and ribs corrugated like a saguaro.

At last the older boy said, "I will turn into a saguaro, so that I shall live forever and bear fruit every summer."

Word Value for saguaros
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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