cholla
cho luh
- n arborescent cacti having very spiny cylindrical stem segments; southwestern United States and Mexico
- Here he praises the saguaro, the prickly pear and the wicked cholla cactus with all the exuberance of a convert.
- I wondered if these were part of the "scores of cholla cacti" trucked in from Wright's compound at Taliesin West that Franklin Toker mentions in his book Fallingwater Rising.