mesembryanthemum
See also: Mesembryanthemum
English edit
Etymology edit
From the genus name.
Noun edit
mesembryanthemum (plural mesembryanthemums)
- Any of the genus Mesembryanthemum of herbaceous or suffruticose plants.
- 1933 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Europe in 1960”, in The Shape of Things to Come, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, 2nd book (The Days after Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration), page 227:
- The celebrated garden in which suicidal gamblers used to put an end to their troubles was overgrown with mesembryanthemum.
- 1939, Jan Struther, “A Country House Visit”, in Mrs. Miniver[1]:
- They had come out on to the coast road now, and Cornwall was out-postering itself, as usual, with rocky headlands and sandy coves and fishing villages that spilled themselves down the cliff face like cascades of mesembryanthemum.
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References edit
- “mesembryanthemum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.