Cactus (disambiguation)
A cactus is a member of the plant family Cactaceae.
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Cactus may also refer to:
Music
- Cactus (American band), a rock band
- Cactus (Cactus album), their eponymous first album
- Cactus (Indian band), a Bangla band
- Cactus, an extension of the Bengali band Mohiner Ghoraguli
- Cactus (Bobby Kapp and Matthew Shipp album), 2016
- Cactus (record label), a UK record label
- "Cactus" (Pixies song), 1988
- "Cactus" (A.C.E song), 2017
Film and television
- Cactus (1986 film), directed by Paul Cox
- Cactus (2008 film), an Australian mystery-thriller
- Cactus (TV series), a 1998 Iranian satirical TV series
Technology
- Cactus Framework, a software framework
- Jakarta Cactus, a software testing framework
- CACTUS, an Air Cherenkov Telescope
- Citroën C4 Cactus, a small family car
- Cactus (camera equipment brand)
Military
- USS Cactus (1863), a Union Navy steamer in the American Civil War
- Operation Cactus, the Indian Army intervention in the 1988 Maldives coup d'état
- Cactus, the South African designation for the Crotale missile system
- Cactus, a nuclear test conducted by the US in 1958 as part of Operation Hardtack I
Places
United States
- Cactus, Kansas, a former settlement
- Cactus, Texas, a city
- Cactus Plain, Arizona
- Cactus Range, a small mountain range in Nevada
Elsewhere
- Cactus Beach, a surfing beach in South Australia
- Cactus Ridge, Okinawa, site of fighting in World War II
Business
- Cactus (supermarket), in Luxembourg
- Cactus Theater, a theater in Lubbock, Texas
- Cactus Motor Lodge, a motel in Tucumcari, New Mexico, on the National Register of Historic Places
- Cactus (interbank network), an ATM network in Nevada
People
- Cactus Pete Piersanti (1916–1994), American hotel and casino promoter
- Richard Cactus Pryor (1923–2011), American broadcaster and humorist
- Jonatan Söderström, Swedish independent game developer known as "Cactus"
- John Nance Garner (1868–1967), American politician and lawyer, 32nd Vice President of the United States and 39th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, known as "Cactus Jack"
Other uses
- Cactus (crustacean), the crustacean genus
- Cactus graph or cactus, a type of connected graph
- USCGC Cactus (WLB-270), a United States Coast Guard seagoing buoy tender
- "The Cactus", a short story by O. Henry from the collection Waifs and Strays
- Cactus, callsign for US Airways
- Cactus, callsign for the former America West Airlines, which merged into US Airways
- Cacti (software), an open-source, web-based network monitoring and graphing tool
See also
- "Les Cactus", a 1967 single by French singer-songwriter Jacques Dutronc
- The Cactus Album, the 1989 debut album of hip hop trio 3rd Bass
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