A cactus is a member of the plant family Cactaceae.
Cactus may also refer to:
Music Cactus (American band), a rock band Cactus (Cactus album), their eponymous first album Cactus (Indian band), a rock band Cactus, an extension of the Indian rock band Moheener Ghoraguli Cactus (Bobby Kapp and Matthew Shipp album), 2016 Cactus (record label), a UK record label "Cactus" (Pixies song), 1988 "Cactus" (A.C.E song), 2017 "Cactus" (Belinda song), 2024 "Cactus", a 2021 song by Twice from Formula of Love: O+T=<3
Film and television Cactus (1986 film), an Australian drama directed by Paul Cox Cactus (2008 film), an Australian mystery-thriller Cactus (TV series), a 1998 Iranian satirical comedy
Technology Cactus Framework, a software framework CACTUS, an air Cherenkov telescope Citroën C4 Cactus, a small family car Cactus (camera equipment brand) Cacti (software), an open-source, web-based network monitoring and graphing tool
Military , a Union Navy steamer in the American Civil War , a United States Coast Guard seagoing buoy tender Operation Cactus, the Indian Army intervention in the 1988 Maldives coup d'état Cactus, the South African designation for the Crotale missile system Cactus, a 1958 US nuclear test, part of Operation Hardtack I Kaktus, an improvement of Soviet Kontakt-5 armour Cactus, US military code name for Guadalcanal Island during World War II
Places United States Cactus, Kansas, a former settlement Cactus, Texas, a city Cactus Plain, Arizona Cactus Range, a small mountain range in Nevada Elsewhere Cactus Beach, a surfing beach in South Australia Cactus Ridge, Okinawa, site of fighting in World War II
Business Cactus (supermarket), in Luxembourg Cactus Theater, in Lubbock, Texas Cactus Motor Lodge, in Tucumcari, New Mexico, on the National Register of Historic Places Cactus (interbank network), an ATM network in Nevada
People Cactus Pete Piersanti (1916–1994), American hotel and casino promoter Françoise Cactus (1964–2021), French musician and author Richard Cactus Pryor (1923–2011), American broadcaster and humorist Jonatan Söderström (born 1985), Swedish independent game developer known as "Cactus"
Other uses Cactus, alternative name of the Mammillaria cactus genera Cactus (crustacean), the crustacean genus Cactus graph or cactus, a type of connected graph "The Cactus", a short story by O. Henry from the collection Waifs and Strays Cactus, callsign for US Airways Cactus, callsign for the former America West Airlines, which merged into US Airways Cactus Yearbook, for the University of Texas, published by Texas Student Media Cactus, a plant in the video game series Plants vs. Zombies
See also John Nance Garner (1868–1967), 32nd US vice president, nicknamed "Cactus Jack" Cactus Air Force, nickname for the USAAF, USMC, and USN air units on Guadalcanal in World War II "Les Cactus", a 1967 single by French singer-songwriter Jacques Dutronc The Cactus Album, the 1989 debut album of hip hop trio 3rd Bass Cactus Plant Flea Market, an American clothing brand established in 2015