Etymology

cactused

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Today it means: Featuring a cactus or cacti. Full definition →

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The story

From cactus + -ed. Australian colloquialism may have originated as a result of the Australian prickly pear plague in the early 20th century, which overran farmland, making it unusable.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.