Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun crab_cactus

1 sense of crab cactus

Sense 1
crab cactus, Thanksgiving cactus, Zygocactus truncatus, Schlumbergera truncatus -- (South American jointed cactus with usually red flowers; often cultivated as a houseplant; sometimes classified as genus Schlumbergera)
       => cactus -- (any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines)