Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of plants, of the order Ficoideæ, distinguished from Mesembrayanthemum, the other genus of its tribe, Mesembryeæ, by its apetalous flowers.

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  • noun New Zealand spinach

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  • Glenarvan, holding with one hand to a tuft of tetragonia, with the other holding his wife, waited with breathless anxiety.

    In Search of the Castaways 2003

  • Glenarvan, holding with one hand to a tuft of tetragonia, with the other holding his wife, waited with breathless anxiety.

    In Search of the Castaways 1873

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