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mesembryanthemum /mɪˌzɛmbrɪˈanθɪməm /nounA succulent South African plant with brightly coloured daisy-like flowers.- Mesembryanthemum and related genera, family Aizoaceae.
For ease of maintenance mesembryanthemums can't be beaten because they come in bright colours and require little water and develop into soft billows....- Out near the lighthouse at Cabo Sardão the cliffs were smothered in mesembryanthemum, sherbet-yellow flowers in tangles of fleshy leaves.
- ‘When he examined it more closely he found it was not a daisy but a drosanthemum, which is a member of the mesembryanthemum family,’ Rabie said.
OriginModern Latin, based on Greek mesēmbria 'noon' + anthemon 'flower'. |