Cactuses or cacti?

Question

1. are cactuses the same as cacti?

2. does cactuses mean more than 1 cactus or does cactis?

3. what does mean more then 1 cactus?

Answer 1

Can anyone point to me a classic latin text which pluralizes cactus as cacti? Even in greek in does not pluralize by the os/oi easy route. The latin pluralization of the plant family is NOT cactae, but cactaceae, which would suggest a longer grammatical root! Furthemore, NO romance language uses cacti. This is purely an american-english incident. Some failed scholar must have inculcated this stupidity into his student's minds and it propagated