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- noun Any of the
genus Mesembryanthemum ofherbaceous orsuffruticose plants .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dorotheanthus is otherwise known as mesembryanthemum, which translates as "midday flowering."
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Dorotheanthus is otherwise known as mesembryanthemum, which translates as "midday flowering."
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Dorotheanthus is otherwise known as mesembryanthemum, which translates as "midday flowering."
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Dorotheanthus is otherwise known as mesembryanthemum, which translates as "midday flowering."
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The celebrated garden in which suicidal gamblers used to put an end to their troubles was overgrown with mesembryanthemum.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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The thick pulpy leaf of the mesembryanthemum is in general use in all parts of Australia which I have visited, and is eaten as a sort of relish with almost every other kind of food.
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A few wagon-loads of mesembryanthemum plants, in seed, are brought to a farm covered with a scanty crop of coarse grass, and placed on a spot to which the sheep have access in the evenings.
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To the natives these berries are an important article of food at this season of the year, and to obtain them and the fruit of the mesembryanthemum, they go to a great distance, and far away from water.
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At Lake Victoria, which is filled with the back waters of the Murray, I have seen six hundred natives encamped together, all of whom were living at the time upon fish procured from the lake, with the addition, perhaps, of the leaves of the mesembryanthemum.
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Our sheep nibbled at the mesembryanthemum, and the cattle ate greedily of various bushes whereof the leaf was sensibly salt to the taste.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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