purslane
a low, trailing plant, Portulaca oleracea, having yellow flowers, used as a salad plant and potherb.: Compare purslane family.
any other plant of the purslane family.
Origin of purslane
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How to use purslane in a sentence
purslane is one of the kitchen garden plants most widely diffused throughout the old world from the earliest times.
Origin of Cultivated Plants | Alphonse De CandolleA very small cuscuta also occurs almost exclusively parasitic on the common purslane.
In among the sweet peas were many little tufts of purslane, and purslane is very good to eat, as anybody knows who has tried it.
Among the Night People | Clara Dillingham PiersonIn Fig. 272, a purslane-flower, the same parts are adnate to or consolidated with the ovary up to its middle.
The Elements of Botany | Asa GrayThe flora includes purslane, rock roses and several species of ferns and mosses.
British Dictionary definitions for purslane
/ (ˈpɜːslɪn, -leɪn) /
a weedy portulacaceous plant, Portulaca oleracea, with small yellow flowers and fleshy leaves, which are used in salads and as a potherb
any of various similar or related plants, such as sea purslane and water purslane
Origin of purslane
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