Lexic.us

Definition of Ice plant

1. Noun. Old World annual widely naturalized in warm regions having white flowers and fleshy foliage covered with hairs that resemble ice.

Definition of Ice plant

1. Noun. a succulent annual, ''Carpobrotus edulis'', of the stone plant family, having pale pink flowers and fleshy leaves covered with glistening hairs ¹

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Medical Definition of Ice plant

1. A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten like ice. It is native along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South Africa. Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic; its ashes are used in Spain in making glass. Ice skate = a shoe with a metal runner (called a blade) attached to permit the wearer to glide on ice Ice-skater = one who skates on ice wearing an ice skate; especially. An athlete who performs athletic or artistic movements on a sheet of ice, wearing ice skates; including speed skater and figure skater Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ice Plant

Literary usage of Ice plant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
""one Columbus Iron Works ice plant, complete, secondhand, with a guaranteed capacity of six tons of ice per day of 24 hours, said ice machinery being now ..."

2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"The capacity of an ice plant is governed more particularly by the number of cans ... A 30-day run is the minimum time on which the capacity of an ice plant ..."

3. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by Nathan Clarke Johnson, George Albert Hool (1920)
"Determination of Size of ice plant.—The amount of ice which can be sold in a given community is usually known or can be easily estimated. ..."

4. Bulletin by National Electric Light Association (1911)
"Our experience has been that with a small 25-ton ice plant which is not arranged for very economical operation, we are consuming approximately 90 ..."

5. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1886)
"(3) On the Structure of the ice plant (Mesembryanthemum Crystallinum L.). ... Mesembryanthemum Crystallinum, known as the ice plant, has obtained its name ..."

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