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Hottentot fig

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noun

  1. a perennial plant, Mesembryanthemum (or Carpobrotus ) edule, originally South African, having fleshy prostrate leaves, showy yellow or purple flowers, and edible fruits

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They subsisted by picking up a few shellfish and some dead birds which had been washed ashore, and they ate a sort of cane that grows near the beach, and the Hottentot fig.

From Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 by Grey, George

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