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Cactus originates from the Greek name Kaktos. Kaktos is a Spanish artichoke or the “prickly plant of Sicily” as many refer to it in Greece.

The Greeks used the word cactus to refer to the spiky plant, which they compared to artichoke. However, it later emerged that the plant that they referred to as cactus was actually an artichoke and not a cactus and that the two plants had different characteristics.

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word originates from the Latin word Cardoon in a classical sense. In 1769, Linnaeus thought that the American prickly cactus that we know today were related to cactal, and named the plant cactus.

awesome!! but don't let this distract you from the fact that in australia there are 48 million kangaroos and in uruguay there are 3,457,380 inhabitants. so if the kangaroos decide to invade uruguay, each uruguayan will have to fight 14 kangaroos.

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