SAGUARO

noun (plural -ros) Etymology: Mexican Spanish, probably from Ópata (Uto-Aztecan language of Sonora, Mexico) Date: 1856 a tall columnar usually sparsely-branched cactus ( Carnegiea gigantea ) of dry areas of the southwestern United States and Mexico that bears white flowers and a scaly reddish edible fruit and that may attain a height of up to 50 feet (16 meters)