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There are thousands of fiddler crabs Uca tangeri on the upper beaches, and cockles Cardium edule and the detrivorous gastropods Cymbium and Cornus spp. on the mudflats.

Banc d'Arguin National Park, Mauritania 2009

One of this family is edible (‘Mesembryanthemum edule’); another possesses a tuberous root, which may be eaten raw; and all are furnished with thick, fleshy leaves, having pores capable of imbibing and retaining moisture from a very dry atmosphere and soil, so that, if a leaf is broken during a period of the greatest drought, it shows abundant circulating sap.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Chayote (Sechium edule), an edible fruit-bearing vine, is allowed to climb over the netted wires which are suspended 1. 5-2.0 m high from the ground.

1. Multistoried Sequential Cropping: The Cavite Model 1992

Sechium edule cilantro (coriander), Coriandrum sativum citrus.

14. Saving seeds for planting 1991

Then followed a subsidence, which not only re-established communication through the Danish channels, but allowed the Baltic to become sufficiently salt for such forms as _Cardium edule_ and _Littorina littorea_.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

Passed cotton cultivation in two places, one close to the Monass, and one to the Koollong, both equally bad, and observed Begonia edule, which they call Sheemptsee, and which they eat.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

So in _Sechium edule_, the seed of which germinates while still in the fruit, the roots are necessarily, owing to the inverted position of the embryo, directed upwards in the first instance.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

The very singular mode of germination of _Sechium edule_ in which the fruit, instead of rotting, becomes thickened into a kind of rhizome or tuber, is a fact that should not be overlooked in investigating the true nature of the fruit in this order.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

Could we obtain a deep section of the bottom, we should find beds of Ostrea edulis and Cardium edule, then a layer of Zostera marina with fresh-water fish, and then a bed of Mytilus edulis.

Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 05 (historical) 1874

To that era belong the deep beds of oyster shells and Cardium edule, which are still found at the bottom of the fjord.

Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 05 (historical) 1874