Lewis Short
cactus (noun M) = κάκτος:
* A prickly plant with edible stalks, etc., found in Sicily, Spanish artichoke: Cynara cardunculus, Linn.; Plin. 21, 16, 57, § 97.
* Trop., any thing thorny, unpleasant: eradicato omni cacto et rubo subdolae familiaritatis,Tert. Pall. 2 fin.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary