Iceplantとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

ice plant (plural ice plants)

1. A succulent annual, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, of the fig marigold family, having pale pink flowers and fleshy leaves covered with glistening water vesicles.
2. Any of several plants in fig marigold family, Aizoaceae, which were formerly classified in the genus Mesembryanthemum along with Mesembryanthemum crystallinum.
   1. Especially, Carpobrotus edulis.

同意語

• (Aizoaceae): fig marigold, pebble plant
• (Caprobrotus edulis): Hottentot fig

参照

• ice plant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Mesembryanthemum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• “ice plant”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ice plant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• pectinal, planetic