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• pig-face

Noun

pigface ‎(plural pigfaces)

1. Any of various mesembryanthemums of the genus Carpobrotus, native to coastal areas of Australia, and producing edible fruits.
   • 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin 2009, p. 124:

     The road cut through sand dunes spread patchily with pigface and tumbleweeds and led obliquely to the sea [...].

   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 256:

     that other fleshy plant, the one called pig-face, had lain across a corner of the cliffs like vivid pink shantung flung across a draper's counter.