Acanthosicyos horridus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Cucurbitales
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Genus
- Acanthosicyos
- Species
- Acanthosicyos horridus
- Scientific Name
- Acanthosicyos horridus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Acanthosicyos horridus
Acanthosicyos horridus is an unusual melon that is endemic to the Namib desert. In English it is known as Nara, butter-nuts, or butterpips; in one of the Khoisan languages it is locally called ǃnaras or ǃnara ("!" is pronounced with a click, somewhat like the "tsk" when English people are tutting, tsk-tsk).
...Acanthosicyos horridus in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Botterpit
- Afrikaans
- botterpitte
- Afrikaans
- narabos
- Afrikaans
- naras
- Afrikaans
- narasdoring
- Arabic
- بطيخ نارا
- Czech
- naras bodlinatý
- English
- nara melon
- English
- Nara Plant
- English
- Nara
- English
- Butter Pits
- English
- Butterpips
- English
- Nara Bush
- Russian
- Акантосициос ощетиненный
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