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‖ saguaro|səˈgwɑːrəʊ|
Also saguara, sahuaro, sugarro, suwarrow.
[? Mexican.]
A large branching cactus, Carnegiea gigantea, found in desert regions of southwestern North America. saguaro woodpecker, the Pitahaya woodpecker (Centurus uropygialis) usually nesting in the giant cactus.
1856Wild West (San Francisco) Oct. 4/6 There are in this region a few Indian rancharies, to which the Papagos resort to gather the fruit of the sugarro. 1864S. Mowry Arizona & Sonora 161 Gradually appear..scattered saguaras. 1881Amer. Naturalist XV. 982 By far the most conspicuous form is..the ‘saguara’ cactus. 1883Harper's Mag. Mar. 502/2 We made haste..to cut down an example of the..saguaras, the organ-cactus. 1884Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. (10th Census IX.) 90 Cereus giganteus... Suwarrow. Saguaro. 1884Coues Key N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 488 Saguaro Woodpecker. 1907S. E. White Arizona Nights 220 [The] snake..looked just like a sahuaro stalk. 1916E. C. Peixotto Our Hispanic Southwest 64 Tall saguaros reared their fluted columns like giant candelabra. 1933Sun (Baltimore) 27 Sept. 15/6 The Southwest's giant tree cactus, or sahuaro, is susceptible to crown gall. 1955[see cholla]. 1968W. Garner Deep, Deep Freeze xxxii. 261 Drieter slipped behind a great saguaro with a girth matching his own. 1978Times 21 Aug. 10/6 We could tell this was the real desert because we glimpsed our first saguaro cactuses—those monstrous plants, some more than 100 years old and standing up to 15 feet high. 1979Arizona Daily Star 1 Apr. (Advt. Section) 16/7 This parcel [of land] is dotted with native sahuaro. |
