"I think they call it teddy bear cholla," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing Acts]

Pronghorns can survive on the water in cholla fruits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adaptations of desert birds and mammals] Reference

Shouting out from his piñon pulpit the choir in the cholla.    From Wordnik.com.  [mjh's blog — 2008 — April] Reference

I need to tell her that the Mona Lisa was the original cholla.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dlisted - Be Very Afraid] Reference

Old man Barnett found him in a bed of cholla when he was a baby.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master Fiddler]

The same with the cholla Joe saw, half green stem and half empty lattice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stallion Gate]

On some parts of the plains the arborescent cacti (cholla) are also common.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Semidesert and Desert Province (Bailey)] Reference

One clouded eye from a cholla spine where a horse had thrown him years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Country For Old Men]

Taken off guard, he staggered backward, right into the sharp spines of a cholla cactus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Angel Experiment]

Her dazed glance out the window focused on the shiny, spreading stalks of a cholla cactus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master Fiddler]

He hadn't noticed before that Mrs Quist's Hudson had stopped halfway into a cholla cactus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stallion Gate]

The roots of a two-foot-tall cholla in an extremely arid site may be thirty feet (9 m) long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adaptations of desert plants] Reference

Have you ever sat on a backyard patio surrounded by saguaro, ocotillo, paloverde, and cholla?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Grass Roots Efforts to Impose Socialism] Reference

With extreme cold, a cholla cactus in Santa Fe can turn from bright summer green to deep red.    From Wordnik.com.  [Subhankar Banerjee: Extreme Weather Report From Home: The Thong Will Drop] Reference

They blew out into the oil fields, attaching themselves to mesquite and cholla along the way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giving Notice] Reference

Quiet rabbits huddle beneath cholla, staking claim to a prickly cover in the face of falling sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gratitude 9/18/07 -- New Poem] Reference

Drier (or eroded) areas support desert shrubs such as lotebush, agarita, tree cholla, and ephedra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference

There were clumps of cholla and other cactus, and the native gray-green chamiso bushes one saw everywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Turquoise Mask]

Scattered among the huge club-shaped columns of the saguaro is the cholla, the next largest of the cactuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference

I walk through gauzy afternoon heat, among cholla and ocotillo, feeling myself a stranger in a foreign landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Poem: Walking in Sabino Canyon] Reference

Marrow like lace, piece of a skull, upturned cup, fingerbones scattered like corn and ribs interlaced like cholla.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pony Positive Day Two] Reference

I have found a mysterious nest made mostly of lengths of various kinds of wire, with some sticks and cholla joints woven in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Out..] Reference

They came to flooded stretches where they had to leave the track and maneuver the jeep tenderly around the palo verde and cholla.    From Wordnik.com.  [Underworld] Reference

In a few quick lines I caught the outline of the building, blocking in a cottonwood tree nearby and a clump of cholla by the front door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Turquoise Mask]

There are pale green corn plants poking through the brown soft, lakes glimpsed through trees, cholla cactus among the tumbled red rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [15 Ways To Fix The Suburbs] Reference

At the cholla bunch, Rhoda pointed to a jutting lavender rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert] Reference

The dried heaps of cholla stirred as if unseen paws had pressed them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert] Reference

As they reached the open trail, thrush and to-hee fluttered from the cholla.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert] Reference

Rhoda, fastening their hopes to another distant cholla, led the way on again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert] Reference

Webb, stung to irritable action, fired into the cholla and the arrowweed thickets.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man Four-Square] Reference

Volunteer Jeannie Gregory dissected a cholla cactus flower to prepare it to be pressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fore, right!] Reference

I slid and slipped down the bluff, getting pretty well stuck up with the cholla spines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arizona Nights] Reference

Among these the cholla is at once one of the most fascinating and the most exasperating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the National Parks] Reference

A gibbous moon passed over us into the evening, unveiling pale shadows of saguaros and cholla.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

The cholla is not a pleasant companion as all persons know who have had any experience with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arizona Sketches] Reference

Closer, inch by inch, making the most of every bunch of yucca and cholla, the officer slowly crept.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man Four-Square] Reference