mesembryanthemum
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of mesembryanthemum
< New Latin (Linnaeus), irregular < Greek mesēmbrí ( a ) midday + ánthemon flower
Example Sentences
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On the water side of the rotunda, a novel effect of inclusion is obtained by semi-circular walls of growing mesembryanthemum.
From The Jewel City by Ben Macomber
The Actinia mesembryanthemum is the common smooth anemone, abounding on the coast, and often to be found attached to stones on the beach.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 by Various
It is made of mesembryanthemum spectabilis put in boxes, six feet by two by two and a half inches, filled with earth, over which is put a wire-mesh screen.
From Palaces and Courts of the Exposition by Juliet Helena Lumbard James
They bloomed everywhere, these sea-pinks; sheet upon sheet of pale rose-colour, soon to show paler and fade before the rosy splendours of the mesembryanthemum.
From The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
They found a pond at the distance of about eleven miles; the way to it being over a fine hard plain covered with mesembryanthemum and salsolae.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 by Thomas Mitchell
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