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nopal (nō·pälˑ), n Latin name: Opuntia streptacantha Lemaire, Opuntia ficus indica; parts used: cactus pads; uses: diabetes mellitus, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, constipation, and gastrointestinal conditions; precautions: none known. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In addition to the cooked stems and sweet fruits savored by diners, the cactus pads provided a source of sticky binding material for adobe bricks during construction. Yet her groups and combinations here showed her attention falling, for example, on the visual rub between a segment of prickled cactus pad and a near-abstract rectangle of muscled skin; on echoing shapes in a penis and a jack-in-the-pulpit flower, in winding plant stems and curled-up toes and feet; in rhymes across the room between sculptured heads in black bronze and white marble. The artist provides glimpses of her background, her childhood, and her family through snapshots of daily and special activities and stories: cleaning nopalitos, edible cactus pads, with her grandfather; decorating Easter eggs with her mother and siblings; lighting candles in front of an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe. |
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