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Definition of Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
1. Noun. Old World annual widely naturalized in warm regions having white flowers and fleshy foliage covered with hairs that resemble ice.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mesembryanthemum Crystallinum
Literary usage of Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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 ..."
2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1850)
"... fresh specimens of the curious Ice-plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum}, a
plant which is remarkable on account of the gland-like vesicular eminences ..."
3. Transactions of the Botanical Society by Botanical Society of Edinburgh (1850)
"V. On the Watery Secretion of the Leaves and Stems of the Ice-plant (Mesembryanthemum
crystallinum, L.). By Dr. AUGUSTUS VOELCKER, Prof. of Chemistry Royal ..."
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