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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 No·pal n.  Bot. A cactaceous plant (Nopalea cochinellifera), originally Mexican, on which the cochineal insect feeds, and from which it is collected.  The name is sometimes given to other species of Cactaceae.