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  • noun Plural form of saguaro.

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Examples

  • Tucson, although growing, was a much more manageable size, and you could see desert plants such as saguaros and prickly pears even in the heart of the city.

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  • I spent my last morning there out in the desert, shooting saguaros, cactuses you have seen a million times, with their Gumby arms lifted in what one woman said to me she imagined was a friendly wave hello.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Power of Setting 2010

  • It had some tall saguaros down at the bottom with bushes growing in between, then got bare farther up.

    To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010

  • I watched the outside go by, hilly and rocky, with saguaros here and there, the kind of country we like.

    To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010

  • I sniffed at the saguaros and the bushes, noticed a pickax blade, old and rusty, the kind miners used.

    To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010

  • I watched the outside go by, hilly and rocky, with saguaros here and there, the kind of country we like.

    To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010

  • I sniffed at the saguaros and the bushes, noticed a pickax blade, old and rusty, the kind miners used.

    To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010

  • The Sonoran desert habitats serve them very well, and they're thriving on a diet composed largely of mesquite beans, and nesting in cavities in the saguaros, or in the spaces under roof tiles.

    Photography Contest: Finalists, Invasive - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • It had some tall saguaros down at the bottom with bushes growing in between, then got bare farther up.

    To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010

  • I am more familiar with southern AZ and NM, less green, more saguaros.

    New Mexico in Pictures 2 | Living the Liminal 2008

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