cholla

noun

1. Any of several species of cactus in the genus Cylindropuntia, having very spiny, cylindrical stem segments.

   “Throughout Arizona the floors of such caves are found covered with a deep bed of chollas.”

   “The cholla was two feet high, and six feet in diameter.”

   “The terrain was thick with cholla and clumps of it clung to the horses with spikes that would drive through a bootsole to the bones within […]”

   “On the front nine, Jones stuck to Woods like a cholla cactus.”