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Noun: sour fig
  1. Low-growing South African succulent plant having a capsular fruit containing edible pulp
    "Local children gathered sour figs from the coastal rocks";
    - Hottentot fig, Hottentot's fig, Carpobrotus edulis, Mesembryanthemum edule

Derived forms: sour figs

Type of: succulent

Part of: Carpobrotus, genus Carpobrotus

Encyclopedia: Sour fig