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sa⋅gua⋅ro

  [suh-gwahr-oh, -wahr-oh]
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–noun, plural -ros.
a tall, horizontally branched cactus, Carnegiea (or Cereus) gigantea, of Arizona and neighboring regions, yielding a useful wood and bearing an edible fruit: still locally common, though some populations have been reduced.

Origin:
1855–60, Americanism; < MexSp saguaro, sahuaro, said to be < Opata (now extinct Uto-Aztecan language of Sonora)
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sa·gua·ro   (sə-gwär'ō, -wär'ō)   
n.   pl. sa·gua·ros also sa·hua·ros

  1. A very large cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) of the southwest United States and northern Mexico, having ribbed upward-curving branches, white funnel-shaped flowers, and edible red fruit.

  2. The fruit of this cactus.


[American Spanish, probably of Piman origin.]
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saguaro 
type of large branching cactus of the N.Amer. desert, 1856, from Mexican Sp., from Piman native name, of unknown origin.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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