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Glossary
| Agave | (ah-GAH-vay) | Century plant. |
| Amole | (ah-MOH-lay) | Spanish name for the agave. |
| Bisnaga | (bees-NAH-gah) | Barrel cactus. |
| Cereus | (SEE-re-us) | One of several cactuses, mostly erect and columnar with night-blooming flowers. |
| Chaparral | (shap-pah-RAHL) | A dense thicker of dwarf oaks or other rough, woody trees or shrubs. |
| Chihuahua | (chee-WAH-wah) | A State in Mexico, bordering nearby New Mexico. |
| Chiricahua | (cheery-COW-ah) | A national monument in SE Arizona named after an Apache Indian tribe. |
| Chlorophyl | (CLOR-oh-fill) | The green coloring matter of plants. |
| Cholla | (CHO-yah) | A Spanish word for any of several very spiny cactuses. |
| Cinquefoil | (SINK-foil) | A wildflower with a leaf having 5 divisions. |
| Ephemeral | (ef-FEM-er-ahl) | Short-lived. |
| Gneiss | (NICE) | A rock, banded by recrystallization due to tremendous heat and pressure. |
| Jojoba | (ho-HOH-bah) | Deernut, a small tree or shrub of the high desert. |
| Mescal | (mess-KAHL) | A small cactus with rounded stems or joints covered with ribbed tubercles. |
| Mesquite | (mess-KEET) | A spiny, deep-rooted tree of the Southwest. |
| Mica | (MY-kah) | A shiny, semi-transparent mineral which splits easily into thin sheets. |
| Nogales | (no-GAHL-aze) | Town on the border between Arizona and Mexico. |
| Ocotillo | (oh-koh-TEE-yoh) | A thorny shrub with long whiplike unbranched stems tipped in April-May with bright-red flower clusters. |
| Opata | (oh-PAH-tah) | One of a group of Pima Indian tribes in northeastern Sonora, Mexico. |
| Opuntia | (oh-POON-cha) | A group of cactuses having jointed stems and branches. |
| Papago | (PAHP-ah-go) | Indians of northern Mexico and southern Arizona, related to the Pimas. |
| Pima | (PEA-mah) | Indians of northern Mexico and southern Arizona, related to the Papagos. |
| Rincon | (RIN-cone) | The mountain range in which are located the higher parts of Saguaro National Monument. |
| Sacahuista | (sah-kah-WEES-tah) | Spanish name for beargrass. |
| Saguaro | (sah-WAH-roe) | A tall columnar cactus—principal feature of Saguaro National Monument. |
| Sonoran | (So-NOR-ahn) | The arid division of the austral (southern) zone including warmer parts of the western United States. |
| Sotol | (SO-tohl) | Any yucca-like plant of the genus Dasylirion. |
| Tanque Verde | (TAHN-kay VERH-day) | Mountain range, foothills of the Rincons. |
| Tucson | (TOO-sahn) | Principal city of southeastern Arizona. |
| Tumacacori | (too-mah-KAH-koh-ree) | Old Spanish mission and a national monument near Nogales Ariz. |
| Yucca | (YUK-kuh) | A genus of American plants of the lily family such as the Spanish dagger, Spanish bayonet and Joshua-tree. |
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Last Modified: Sat, Nov 4 2006 10:00:00 pm PST |