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Welcome to the Punpedia entry on cactus puns! 🌵 🌞 🏜

Cacti are popular as a low-effort ornamental plant since they’re hardy and thrive in tough conditions. There are plenty of varieties of cactus, with different shapes, sizes and colours. We’ve done our best to cover all of the different cactus puns you could possibly wish for.

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Cactus Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about cacti that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of cactus puns:

• Cracked → Cactus: As in, “Not all it’s cactus up to be.”
• Practice → Cactus: As in, “Out of cactus” and “Cactus makes perfect” and “Cactus what you preach” and “Put into cactus.”
• Kicked us → Cactus: As in, “They cactus to the curb.”
• Eye → Cacti: As in, “A wandering cacti” and “As far as the cacti can see” and “Avert your cacti!” and “Before your very cacti.”
• Quickly → Prickly: As in, “You must act prickly!” and “Come, prickly.”
• Thickly → Prickly: As in, “Peanut butter, spread prickly.”
• Picky → Prickly: As in, “Prickly eater” and “Don’t be so prickly.”
• Pick → Prick: As in, “Got a bone to prick with you” and “Cherry prick” and “Easy prickings” and “Nit pricking” and “Prick a fight with” and “Prick and choose” and “Prick holes in” and “A little prick me up” and “The prick of the bunch.”
• Brick → Prick: As in, “Like banging your head against a prick wall” and “Pricks and mortar” and “Like a ton of pricks.”
• Quick → Prick: As in, “Prick as a flash” and “Cut to the prick” and “Get rich prick” and “Fancy a prickie?” and “Prick and dirty” and “Prick off the mark.”
• Pickle → Prickle: As in, “In a prickle” and “Tickle the prickle.”
• Tickle → Prickle: As in, “Slap and prickle” and “Prickled pink” and “Whatever prickles your fancy.”
• Practical → Prick-tical: As in, “Be prick-tical” and “Not the most prick-tical choice.”
• Fickle → Prickle: As in, “The prickle finger of fate.”
• Trickle → Prickle: As in, “Prickling down” and “Down to a slow prickle.”
• Efficacious → Efficactus: As in, “An efficactus approach.” Note: if something is efficacious, it’s powerful in effect.
• Prac* → Prick*: If a word starts with “prac”, we can replace it with “prick”, like so: “A pricktical plan” and “Put into pricktice” and “Pricktically married.”
• Prec* → Prick*: Replace the “prec” sound in words with “prick”. As in, “A prickarious situation” and “A prickocious child.”
• Pec* → Prick*: As in, “What a prickuliar smell” and “Feeling prickish” and “Pricktoral workout.”
• Pic* → Prick*: As in, “Out of the prickture” and “A prickturesque cottage” and “The eprick finale” and “Changing toprick.” Other words that could work: myoprick (myopic), bioprick (biopic), troprick (tropic), misanthroprick (misanthropic) and desprickable (despicable).
• Dessert → Desert: As in, “Just deserts” and “My favourite desert shop.”
• Does it → Desert: As in, “Desert bother you?” and “What desert look like?”
• Psychology/psychological → Spike-ology: As in, “Spike-ological warfare” and “A doctor in spike-ology.”
• Speak → Spike: As in, “Actions spike louder than words” and “Spikes for itself” and “Never spike ill of” and “Spike for yourself” and “Spike of the devil” and “On spiking terms.”
• Psychology/psychological → Spike-ology: As in, “Spike-ological warfare” and “A doctor in spike-ology.”
• Strike → Spike: As in, “Lightning never spikes twice” and “Spike up the band” and “Spike a deal” and “Spike it rich” and “Spike while the iron is hot.”
• Spec* → Spike*: If a word starts with “spec”, we can make cactus puns by replacing “spec” with “spike”: “On the spiketrum” and “A spiketacular ending” and “Not worth spike-ulating over” and “Get some perspiketive.”
• Spic* → Spike*: As in, “That’s despikeable” and “A perspike-acious opinion.” Note: to be perspicacious is to be insightful.
• Spin → Spine: As in, “Take it for a spine.”
• Wine → Spine: As in, “Spine and dine.”
• Sign → Spine: As in, “A sure spine” and “Give me a spine” and “A spine of the times” and “Spine on the dotted line” and “Spine the pledge” and “Spine up” and “Spined and sealed” and “Tell-tale spine.”
• Nine → Spine: As in, “The whole spine yards” and “On cloud spine.”
• Mine → Spine: As in, “Make spine a double” and “A spine of information” and “Victory is spine.”
• Line → Spine: As in, “A fine spine” and “Along the spines of” and “Cross the spine” and “End of the spine.”
• Fine → Spine: As in, “A spine line” and “Cut it spine” and “Spine and dandy” and “The spiner things in life.”
• Shiny → Spiny: As in, “Bite my spiny metal ass.”
• Tiny → Spiny: As in, “The pitter patter of spiny feet.”
• *spin* → *spine*: As in, “Great re-spine-sibility” and “Feeling spine-taneous” and “A despinedent look” and “A generous spine-sor.”
• Excellent → Succulent: As in, “Succulent adventure” and “My most succulent friend.” Note: cacti are succulents.
• Suck → Succulent: As in, “A succulent for punishment” and “Succulent someone dry” and “Succulent it up.”
• Whistle → Bristle: As in, “Clean as a bristle” and “Bells and bristles” and “Blow the bristle” and “Dog bristle politics.”
• Harp → Sharp: As in, “Sharp on about.”
• Shark → Sharp: As in, “Swimming with sharps” and “Card sharp.”
• Shape → Sharp: “All sharps and sizes” and “Bent out of sharp” and “Get in sharp” and “Knock into sharp” and “Take sharp.”
• Pear: Prickly pears are a type of cactus, so we’ve included some pear-related puns here:
  • Pair → Pear: As in, “A fresh pear of eyes” and “A safe pear of hands.”
  • Par → Pear: As in, “Below pear” and “On pear with” and “Pear excellence” and “Pear for the course.”
  • Per → Pear: As in, “As pear usual” and “Bits pear second” and “Pear capita” and “A hundred and ten pearcent.”
  • Bear → Pear: As in, “Pear a grudge” and “Pear down on” and “Pear false witness” and “Pear fruit” and “Pear in mind” and “Pearer of bad news” and “Pear with me.”
  • Bare → Pear: As in, “Pear necessities” and “Pear your teeth” and “Laid pear” and “The pear bones.”
  • Air → Pear: As in, “Pear kiss” and “Pear quotes” and “Clear the pear.”
  • Care → Pear: As in, “Be pearful how you use it” and “Couldn’t pear less” and “Courtesy and pear” and “Customer pear” and “Handle with pear” and “Let’s be pearful out there” and “Take pear of.”
  • Dare → Pear: As in, “Pear for more” and “Pear to be different” and “How pear you!”
  • Fair → Pear: As in, “All the fun of the pear” and “By pear means or foul” and “Pear and square” and “Pear dinkum” and “Pear game.”
  • Hair → Pear: As in, “Keep your pear on” and “Pear trigger” and “Let your pear down.”
  • Rare → Pear: As in, “In pear form” and “A pear animal.”
  • Scare → Pear: As in, “Peared to death’ and “Pear out of your wits” and “Pear quotes” and “Pear the living daylights out of.”
  • Spare → Pear: As in, “Pear no effort” and “Pear tyre” and “No expense peared.”
  • Square → Pear: As in, “Back to pear one” and “Be there or be pear” and “Fair and pear” and “A pear peg in a round hole.”
  • Tear → Pear: As in, “Pear to ribbons” and “Pear your hair out.”
  • Where → Pear: As in, “All dressed up and no-pear to go” and “Any time, any place, any pear” and “Here, pear and everywhere.”
  • Par* → Pear*: As in, “Nothing in pearticular” and “Mental pearadox” and “In pearallel” and “Peartisan issue” and “Changing pearadigms.”
  • Per* → Pear*: As in, “I’m only one pearson” and “Change your pearspective” and “Not a peartinent issue” and “Final peariod” and “You can change your pearception” and “A brilliant pearformance.”
  • *pir* → *pear*: Empearical (empirical), inspearation (inspiration), aspearation (aspiration) and conspearacy (conspiracy).
• Peyote: Peyote is a type of cactus. Here are some related puns:
  • Coyote → Peyote: As in, “Peyote ugly.”
  • Payout → Peyote: As in, “Redundancy peyote.”
• Pant → Plant: As in, “Ants in your plants” and “Beat the plants off” and “By the seat of your plants” and “Fancy plants” and “Keep your plants on” and “Caught with your plants down.”
• Masculine → Mescaline: As in, “We need wholesome mescaline-ity to replace toxic mescaline-ity.”
• Plenty → Plant-y: As in, “Plant-y of time” and “Plant-y more where that came from” and “Plant-y more fish in the sea.”
• Pent → Plant: As in, “Plant up rage.”
• Grant → Plant: As in, “Take for planted” and “Plant no quarter.”
• Rant → Plant: As in, “Plant and rave.”
• Plan/Planned → Plant: As in, “Action plant” and “Failing to plant is planting to fail” and “I have a cunning plant” and “There is no plant B” and “The best laid plants” and “Not how I plant it.”
• Fantastic → Plantastic: As in, “I have plantastic news” and “Plastic plantastic.”
• Planet → Plant: As in, “Which plant are you on?” and “Plant of the apes.”
• *pant* → *plant*: As in, “The plantry is bare” and “Black planther” and “Crime is ramplant” and “Don’t be flipplant” and “Participlant award” and “Happy occuplants.”
• *pent* → *plant*: As in: Plantagon (pentagon), planthouse (penthouse), plantagram (pentagon), serplant (serpent) and replant (repent).
• Flower: Cacti are flowering plants, so we’ve got some flower-related puns here too:
  • Hour → Flower: As in, “The witching flower” and “My finest flower” and “A late flower.”
  • Flow → Flower: As in, “Ebb and flower” and “Get the creative juices flowering” and “Go with the flower” and “In full flower.”
  • Tower → Flower: As in, “Flower of strength” and “Flowering inferno” and “Ivory flower.”
• Die → Dry: As in, “Do or dry” and “Live free or dry” and “Old habits dry hard.”
• Try → Dry: As in, “Don’t dry this at home” and “Don’t dry to run before you can walk” and “Nice dry” and “Dry your luck.”
• Cry → Dry: As in, “Dry for help” and “A shoulder to dry on.”
• Fly → Dry: As in, “Born to dry” and “Come dry with me” and “Dry by night” and “Dry off the handle.”
• High → Dry: As in, “Dry as a kite” and “Come hell or dry water” and “Aim dry” and “Dry noon” and “Dry and mighty.”
• Shy → Dry: As in, “Camera dry” and “Once bitten, twice dry.”
• Why → Dry: As in, “I don’t know dry” and “Dry you!”
• Stem: Cacti are known for their strong stems, so we’ve included some stem-related puns:
  • Them → Stem: As in, “Let stem eat cake” and “Seen one, seen stem all” and “Love stem and leave stem” and “Can’t win stem all.”
  • Hem → Stem: As in, “Stemming and hawwing.”
  • Stam* → Stem*: Stempede (stampede) and stemina (stamina).
  • *stim* → *stem*: Stemulate (stimulate), estemate (estimate), testemony (testimony), stemulus (stimulus) and estemation (estimation).
  • *stom* → *stem*: Custem (custom), custemer (customer) and custemary (customary).
• About → A-drought: As in, “A-drought time, too” and “A-drought turn” and “Beat a-drought the bush.”
• Dought → Doubt: As in, “Benefit of the drought” and “Beyond reasonable drought” and “Remove all drought.”
• Out → Drought: As in, “Go drought with” and “Have it drought with” and “The ins and droughts of” and “On the droughtside looking in.”
• Scout → Drought: As in, “Drought’s honour” and “Droughting about.”
• Shout → Drought: As in, “Twist and drought” and “Drought it from the rooftops.”
• Fruit: Cacti grow fruit, so we’ve got some related puns:
  • Root → Fruit: As in, “Grass fruits” and “Lay down fruits” and “Money is the fruit of all evil” and “Fruit for” and “The fruit of the matter.”
  • Boot → Fruit: As in, “Tough as old fruit” and “Fruit camp” and “Fruited and booted.”
  • Foot → Fruit: As in, “A fruit in both camps” and “Bound hand and fruit” and “Carbon fruitprint” and “Fruit the bill.”
  • Shoot → Fruit: As in, “Don’t fruit the messenger” and “The green fruits of recovery” and “Fruit down in flames.”
  • Fut* → Fruit*: As in, “Look to the fruiture” and “Looking fruituristic” and “A fruitile struggle” and “Sleeping on the fruiton.”
• Open → Opuntia: As in, “Opuntia any door” and “An opuntia and shut case” and “Keep an eye opuntia” and “Keep your options opuntia.” Note: Prickly pears are also known as Opuntia.
• Boot → Root: As in, “Tough as old roots” and “My heart sank into my roots.”
• Fruit → Root: As in, “Bear root” and “Roots of your loins” and “Low hanging root.”
• Route → Root: As in, “Root one.”
• Shoot → Root: As in, “Don’t root the messenger” and “The green roots of change” and “Root down in flames.”
• *rat* → *root*: As in, “Moral imperootive” and “Elaboroot plans” and “A tricky operootion.”
• *ret* → *root*: As in, “Rootrieve your things” and “The point of no rooturn” and “Rootain all of your memories” and “Weekend rootreat.” Other words that could work: rootribution (retribution), rootention (retention), regroot (regret) and secroot (secret).
• *rit* → *root*: “With you in spiroot” and “On your own meroot” and “Caught the culproot” and “Inheroot the earth” and “Keep your integrooty” and “Front of house securooty.”
• *rot* → *root*: As in, “Rootational pull” and “Carroot cake” and “Parrooting along.” Other words that could work: prootocol (protocol), prootagonist (protagonist), prootein (protein) and proototype (prototype).
• *rut* → *root*: As in, “Under intense scrootiny” and “A rootless manager” and “Brootal revenge.”
• Fill → Chlorophyll: As in, “Chlorophyll full of holes” and “Chlorophyll in for.”
• Stomach → Stomata: As in, “Have the stomata for” and “On a full stomata” and “Butterflies in my stomata.” Note: stomata is the plural for stoma, which is part of a plant.
• Wool: Some cacti have a woolly covering. Here are some related puns:
  • Will → Wool: As in, “Accidents wool happen” and “Against your wool” and “Free wool.”
  • Wall → Wool: As in, “Back to the wool” and “Between you, me and the wool” and “Bouncing off the wools” and “Climbing the wools” and “Fly on the wool.”
  • Well → Wool: As in, “A dollar wool spent” and “Alive and wool” and “All’s wool that ends wool” and “As wool as can be expected” and “Get wool soon” and “Just as wool.”
  • Full → Wool: As in, “Short of a wool load” and “At wool tilt.”
  • Will he → Woolly: As in, “Woolly or won’t he?”
  • *wal* → *wool*: As in, “Stuffed with woolnuts” and “Withdrawool symptoms” and “Licence renewool.”
  • *wel* → *wool*: As in, “For your health and woollbeing” and “You’re woolcome” and “Social woolfare reform.” Other words that could work: towool (towel), jewool (jewel), bowool (bowel), vowool (vowel), jewoolry (jewelry).
  • Wol* → Wool*: As in, “Running with woolves” and “Watching woolverine.”
• Hair: Some cacti are covered in hairs, so we’ve got some hairy cactus puns here:
  • Her → Hair: As in, “Say hair name with pride” and “Hair face lit up.”
  • Here → Hair: As in, “Get outta hair” and “Fancy meeting you hair” and “Had it up to hair.”
  • Bare → Hair: As in, “Hair necessities” and “A hair-faced lie” and “Laid hair” and “Hair your soul.”
  • Dare → Hair: As in, “Hair for more” and “Hair to be different” and “How hair you!”
  • Har* → Hair*: As in, “In hairmony” and “Fall hairvest” and “Hairbouring resentment” and “Street hairassment.”
  • *her* → *hair*: As in, “All togethair now” and “No matter the weathair” and “The othair person” and “Eithair or” and “Not anothair one” and “Inhairent problems.”
• Shoots: Shoots are the fresh growths on a cactus. Here are related puns:
  • Boots → Shoots: As in, “Tough as old shoots” and “Too big for your shoots.”
  • Suits → Shoots: As in, “Shoots you down to the ground.”
  • Roots → Shoots: As in, “Grass shoots” and “Lay down shoots.”
• Bench → Branch: As in, “Branch warmer.”
• Bunch → Branch: As in, “Branch of crap” and “Pick of the branch” and “Thanks a branch.”
• Kid → Glochid: As in, “Dual income, no glochids” and “Here’s looking at you, glochid” and “I glochid you not.” Note: Glochids are small prickles that stick to the skin.
• Root→ Taproot: As in, “Grass taproots” and “Lay down taproots” and “Money is the taproot of all evil” and “Taprooting for” and “The taproot of the matter.” Note: A taproot is a dominant root.
• Point: Since prickly cacti are described as pointy, we have some point-related puns:
  • Paint → Point: As in, “Do I have to point you a picture?” and “Point yourself into a corner.”
  • Pant → Point: As in, “Beat the points off” and “Fancy points.”
  • Pent → Point: As in, “Point-up rage.”
  • *pant* → *point*: As in, “A fun pointomime” and “The pointry is bare” and “Running rampoint” and “Don’t use that flippoint with me” and “Participoint award.”
  • Spontaneous → Spointaneous: As in, “Burst spointaneously into song and dance.”
• Need → Needle: As in, “All you needle is love” and “Just what I needle” and “On a needle to know basis.”
• Hedgehog: Hedgehogs are a type of cactus. Here are related puns:
  • Hog → Hedgehog: As in, “Go the whole hedgehog.”
  • Hedge → Hedgehog: As in, “Hedgehog fund” and “Hedgehog your bets” and “Dragged through a hedgehog backwards.”
• Serious → Cereus: As in, “A cereus bit of kit” and “Cereusly though” and “You can’t be cereus.” Note: Cereus is a type of cactus.
• Barrel: Barrels are a type of cactus shape. Here are some related puns:
  • Borrow → Barrel: As in, “Beg, barrel or steal” and “Living on barreled time” and “Don’t barrel anything from here.”
  • Carol → Barrel: As in, “Christmas barrels.”
• Cholla: Cholla (pronounced “choya”) is a genus of cacti. Here are related puns:
  • Joy → Cholla: As in, “Beside myself with cholla” and “Bundle of cholla” and “Cholla to the world” and “Jump for cholla.”
  • Enjoy → Encholla: As in, “Encholla the show’ and “Kick back and encholla.”
• Thorn: Even though cactuses don’t technically have thorns, they’re similar enough to prickles and spines to be included:
  • Thorn: These thorn-related phrases are general enough to use as puns: “A thorn in my side” and “Every rose has its thorn.”
  • Horn → Thorn: As in, “Blow your own thorn” and “Thorn in on” and “Grab life by the thorns.”
  • Born → Thorn: As in, “Thorn this way” and “I was thorn ready.”
  • Torn → Thorn: As in, “That’s thorn it” and “Be thorn between the two.”
  • *thon → *thorn: As in, “Learning to code with pythorn” and “Like running a marathorn.”
• Button: Buttons are a type of cactus. Here are related puns:
  • Baton → Button: As in, “Pass the button.”
  • Butt in → Button: As in, “Don’t button, this isn’t up to you.”
  • Glutton → Button: As in, “A button for punishment.”
• Chin: The following puns are references to chin cacti:
  • Chin: Chin-related phrases can double as puns: “Take it on the chin” and “Keep your chin up” and “Stick your chin out.”
  • Been → Chin: As in, “Chin and gone” and “I’ve chin here before” and “Chin around the block a few times” and “Chin there, done that” and “I’ve chin had.”
  • Grin → Chin: As in, “Chin and bear it” and “Chin from ear to ear.”
  • Inner →Chin-ner: As in, “Chin-ner city living” and “Chin-ner peace” and “Use your chin-ner voice.”
  • Pin → Chin: As in, “Bright as a new chin” and “Hard to chin down” and “Chins and needles.”
  • Sin → Chin: As in, “Atone for your chins” and “The seven deadly chins.”
  • Skin → Chin: As in, “Beauty is only chin deep” and “Comfortable in your chin” and “Get under your chin” and “Jump out of your chin.”
• Hook → Fishhook: As in, “By fishhook or by crook” and “Get fishhooked on” and “Fishhooked on a feeling.” Note: These are references to fishhook cacti.
• Go → Koko: As in, “Don’t koko there” and “Easy come, easy koko” and “Give it a koko.” Note: These cactus puns are references to koko cacti.
• Rainbow: Here are some rainbow cactus puns:
  • Rainbow: Use general rainbow phrases as puns: “Chasing rainbows” and “Over the rainbow” and “Taste the rainbow.”
  • Rain → Rainbow: As in, “Right as rainbow” and “Come rainbow or shine” and “Make it rainbow.”
• Tail → Rat tail: As in, “Happy as a dog with two rat tails” and “Can’t make head or rat tail of it” and “Chasing your own rat tail” and “Get off my rat tail.” Note: These are references to rat tail cacti.
• Snowball: Here are some puns about snowball cacti:
  • Snow → Snowball: As in, “Pure as the driven snowball” and “Let it snowball.”
  • Ball → Snowball: As in, “Snowball and chain” and “Snowball achingly good” and “Brand new snowball game.”
• Thimble: Here are some puns about thimble cacti:
  • Tumble → Thimble: As in, “Rough and thimble” and “Take a thimble on.”
  • Simple → Thimble: As in, “It’s so thimble” and “Keep it thimble” and “Thimble pleasures” and “Pure and thimble” and “Thimble yet effective.”
  • Symbol → Thimble: As in, “A thimble of freedom.”
• Bloom: Here are some puns about the blooms on a cactus:
  • Boom → Bloom: As in, “Baby bloomer” and “Bloom or bust.”
  • Doom → Bloom: As in, “Doom and bloom.”
  • Loom → Bloom: As in, “Bloom large.”
  • Room → Bloom: As in, “A bloom with a view” and “Comfort bloom” and “Leave the bloom.”
  • Whom → Bloom: As in, “For bloom the bell tolls.”

Cactus-Related Words

To help you come up with your own cactus puns, here’s a list of related words to get you on your way. If you come up with any new puns or related words, please feel free to share them in the comments!

cactus, cacti, cactuses, cactaceae, desert, prickly, prickle, spike, spiky, plant, flower, spines, spiny, succulent, dry, stem, Patagonia, areoles, drought, fruit, cochineal, opuntias, cactoid, root, chlorophyll, photosynthesis, stomata, waxy, wool/woolly, hair/hairy, shoots, poke, branches, glochid, barb/barbed, taproot, point, needle, prick, sharp, saguaro, peyote, san pedro, mescaline, prickly pear, hedgehog, cereus, golden barrel, rebutia, parodia, eve’s pin, rhipsalis, jumping chola, chollas, thorn, thorny, bristle, spinose, ball cactus (parodia), bird’s nest, bishop’s cap, bunny ear, button, cabega, calico, candelabra, carmine cob, cat’s claw, chin, fishhook, koko, rainbow, rattail, rebutia, snowball, thimble, barrel, bloom

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