nopalry

English

Etymology

From nopal +‎ -ry (variant of -ery), a variant of nopalery.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnəʊp(ə)lɹi/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnoʊpəlri/
• Hyphenation: no‧pal‧ry

Noun

nopalry (plural nopalries)

1. Alternative spelling of nopalery
   • 1783, [Guillaume Thomas François] Raynal, “Of the Culture of the Cochineal”, in J[ohn] O[badiah] Justamond, transl., A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. […], new edition, volume III, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], book VI (Discovery of America. Conquest of Mexico; and Settlements of the Spaniards in that Part of the New World), page 354:

     This ſpecies [the wild cochineal] multiplies more readily, ſpreads further and faſter without any aſſiſtance; ſo that a nopalry is ſoon covered with them.

     According to the Oxford English Dictionary this is the earliest occurrence of the word in print.

   • 1945, “Cochineal Cactus”, in Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, volume 46, New York, N.Y.: New York Botanical Garden, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 84, column 2:

     The cochineal industry spread rapidly, plantations called nopalries arising in such diverse regions as Spain, India, Algeria, South Africa, Jamaica, and the Canary Islands.

   • 1960, A. K. Yegna Narayan Aiyer, P. Abraham, Cultivation of Cloves in India (I.C.A.R. Bulletin), New Delhi: Indian Council of Agricultural Research, →OCLC, page 5:

     This was another experimental garden started under Dr. Berry as a ‘Nopalry’ or place for the rearing of the cochineal insect on cacti, which however, became a sort of experimental garden where exotic plants were received as they arrived in the Port of Madras and were nursed and looked after until they could be despatched to the interior stations.