ocotillo
noun
oco·ti·llo
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plural ocotillos
Definition of ocotillo
: a thorny scarlet-flowered candlewood (Fouquieria splendens of the family Fouquieriaceae) of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico
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Examples of ocotillo in a Sentence
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In Presidio, Randy Kennedy’s debut novel, the landscape of the Panhandle, West Texas, and the Mexican border, with its caliche and shin oaks and pumpjacks and ocotillo, brushes alongside the plot like an intricate central character. — Eve Macsweeney, Vogue, "In Randy Kennedy’s Presidio, a Startling Road Trip Thriller Full of Twists and Turns," 17 Aug. 2018 Social media was filled with images of the vast fields of desert sunflowers, purple verbena, or fiery red ocotillo flowers. — Ernie Cowan Outdoors, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Don’t expect epic bloom this season, but visit to desert still in order," 29 Jan. 2018 Mexican beige pebbles and Malibu landscape boulders came next, followed by aloes, succulents, Beaucarnea recurvata, ocotillo and camellia. — Lisa Boone, latimes.com, "A Venice homeowner removed the lawn and replaced it with this colorful landscape," 12 Sep. 2017 Spotting a great blue heron in flight over a field of cactus and ocotillo in the Borrego desert just didn’t seem right. — Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Thanks to wetlands, heron not out of place in the desert," 21 Aug. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'ocotillo.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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