cactoid

plural cactoids

1. A member of the cactus subfamily Cactoideae.
2. mathematicsA locally connected continuum that is the closure of the union of an at most countable number of spheres and simple arcs, of which every simple closed contour is contained in one and only one of the spheres.

   It is well known that a Peano space is a cactoid if and only if each of its true cyclic elements is a 2-sphere.

   1951, John William Theodore Youngs, The Representation Problem for Fréchet Surfaces, page 27