Look up: Purslane


  1. Purslane
    (Portulaca) Portulaca is a small group of trailing annuals. P. grandiflora, Sun Plant, is a popular kind native of Brazil. The sprawling stems grow 4 or 5 inches long and are clothed with somewhat succulent, cylindrical leaves. Several large flowers, up to an inch in diameter, grow at the ends of th...
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  2. purslane
    [n] - a plant of the family Portulacaceae having fleshy succulent obovate leaves often grown as a potherb or salad herb
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  3. Purslane
    Purs'lane noun [ Old French porcelaine , pourcelaine (cf. Italian porcellana ), corrupted from Latin porcilaca for portulaca .] (Botany) An annual plant ( Portulaca oleracea ), with fleshy, succulent, ob...
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  4. purslane
    <botany> An annual plant (Portulaca oleracea), with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling. Flowering purslane, or Great flowered purslane, the Portulaca grandiflora. See Portulaca. Purslane tree, a South African shrub (Portulac...
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  5. purslane
    noun a plant of the family Portulacaceae having fleshy succulent obovate leaves often grown as a potherb or salad herb; a weed in some areas
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  6. Purslane
    • (n.) An annual plant (Portulaca oleracea), with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling.
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  7. purslane
    any of certain small, fleshy annual plants of the genus Portulaca (40–100 species), of the family Portulacaceae. The plants have prostrate, often ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/135

  8. purslane
    purslane, common name for some plants of the Portulaceae, a family of herbs and a few small shrubs, chiefly of the Americas. The portulacas or purslanes (genus Portulaca) include many species indigenous to the United States. The pussley, or common purslane (P. oleracea), is a common trailing weed in...
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  9. purslane
    1) Herb 2) Herbaceous plant
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/purslane/1

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