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.
