Hottentot fig

British  

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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Example Sentences

For vegetables they had the bulbs of many species of Ixias and Mesembryanthemums, among others the “Hottentot fig.”

From Project Gutenberg

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.

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