Hottentot fig

noun

1. a perennial plant, Mesembryanthemum (or Carpobrotus ) edule, originally South African, having fleshy prostrate leaves, showy yellow or purple flowers, and edible fruits

Example Sentences

For vegetables they had the bulbs of many species of Ixias and Mesembryanthemums, among others the “Hottentot fig.”

From Project Gutenberg

They subsisted by picking up a few shellfish and some dead birds which had been washed ashore, and they ate a sort of cane that grows near the beach, and the Hottentot fig.

From Project Gutenberg