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Ice plant   Listen
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Ice plant  n.  (Bot.) 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.






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"Ice plant" Quotes from Famous Books



... and ample, and the officers' quarters all that could be desired; her galley equipment was complete, even to a small auxiliary ice plant. What she needed was cleaning, painting and scraping, and lots of it, also the riggers would be a few days on her standing rigging; but, so far as Matt could discern, that was all. From the watchman he learned that one Terence ...
— Cappy Ricks • Peter B. Kyne



Words linked to "Ice plant" :   icicle plant, fig marigold, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum



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