/seuh gwahr"oh, -wahr"oh/ , n. , pl. saguaros .
a tall, horizontally branched cactus, Carnegiea (or Cereus ) gigantea, of Arizona and neighboring regions, yielding a useful wood and bearing an edible fruit: still locally common, though some populations have been reduced. See illus. under cactus .
[ 1855-60, Amer.; saguaro, sahuaro, said to be ]