mesembryanthemum

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun South African annual or biennial plants having flowers that open only in bright sunlight

From the genus name.

We had travelled over almost leafless plains save that they had little patches of mesembryanthemum, and the inevitable balloon-shrub (madhar). — Southern Arabia, J. Theodore (James Theodore) Bent
Being sheltered from the north, and with a rich soil, every cottage garden luxuriates in great hedges of mesembryanthemum; and, as we find further west, the fuchsias grow like trees. — The Cornwall Coast, Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon

genus Mesembryanthemum

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