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Description: During a reconnaissance mission, the UAV plane crashes into a cactus-like plant on a planet inhabited by an unusual life form.
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The desert did have its version of a cactus-like plant that survived in pockets, but it did not have the riotous diversity of plant life that the jungle did.
Around a Sun Named Inferno Hugh Barlow 2011
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Besides the insect like things that scuttled about, the only other source for food and water was the cactus-like plant.
Around a Sun Named Inferno Hugh Barlow 2011
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It's all-natural, from a cactus-like plant indigenous to S. Africa and Namibia (a.k.a. birthplace of Shiloh!) and it has been used for centuries for its appetite suppressing qualities.
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At that point, the company planted a fresh batch of blue agave (the cactus-like plant used to make tequila) on the original plot of land granted to Jose Cuervo himself in 1758.
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It spread up the sides of the pit by the third or fourth day of our imprisonment, and its cactus-like branches formed a carmine fringe to the edges of our triangular window.
The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009
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(The nopal is the cactus-like plant with roundish flat appendages full of stickers).
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(The nopal is the cactus-like plant with roundish flat appendages full of stickers).
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Near the southeastern corner of the Makgadikgadi National Park are a few cactus-like Hoodia lugardii plants.
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Mexican farmers are setting ablaze fields of blue agave, the cactus-like plant used to make the fiery spirit tequila, and resowing the land with corn as soaring U.S. ethanol demand pushes up prices.
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