Usage examples for cactus:

• Here and there the cold grey cactus serves as a fence, but there is no other kind of hedgerow. "The Story of Seville" – Walter M. Gallichan

• You have seen a cactus that some lady keeps very careful in her window, tending that it die not? "Nautilus" – Laura E. Richards

• I prickled all over like a cactus "The Lightning Conductor Discovers America" – C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson and A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson