(n) English engineer who developed a method of preserving food by sterilizing it with heat and sealing it inside a steel container--the first tin can (1768-1855), Syn.Bryan Donkin
(n) Old World annual widely naturalized in warm regions having white flowers and fleshy foliage covered with hairs that resemble ice, Syn.icicle plant, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
(n) small shrub with tiny evergreen leaves and pink or purple flowers; Alpine summits and high ground in Asia and Europe and United States, Syn.Bryanthus taxifolius, Phyllodoce caerulea
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. meshmbri`a midday + 'a`nqos flower. ] (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous or suffruticose plants, chiefly natives of South Africa. The leaves are opposite, thick, and fleshy. The flowers usually open about midday, whence the name. [ 1913 Webster ]
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