Me loc act us (melokaktus)

[NL. (Link and Otto, 1827), order Cactacee, the cactus family, and the tribe Echinocacteæ. The stem is the base, and is crowned by a narrower, cylindrical flower-bearing head, which is covered with woolly hairs. There are about 30 species, which are found in the West Indies, Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia. The species in general are called melon-cactus or melon - thistle. The best-known is M. com munis, the turk's-cap or pope's-head. It has a height of a foot or a foot and a half. It grows profusely over barren tracts in parts of the West Indies and South America, and is common in cultivation. n. . melocoton, melocotoon (mel'ō-kot-on, -kō-tön), [Formerly also me loco tone, melicotton, and corruptly mal aka to on, IMG:content-0450.jpg:[blocks in formation] 3700 A strawberry breath, cherry lips, apricot cheeks, and a soft velvet head, like a melicotton. B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, i. 1. Deuce-ace, the wafer-woman, that prigs abroad With musk-melons and malakatoones. Webster, Devil's Law-Case, i. 2. melodeon (me-lōdē-on), n. [ Also melodium;