1) Herb 2) Herbaceous plant 3) Portulaca plant in salads 4) Salad potherb 5) Weed with pink fleshy stems
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1) Pusly 2) Pussley 3) Verdolagas 4) Weed
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• (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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any of certain small, fleshy annual plants of the genus Portulaca (40–100 species), of the family Portulacaceae. The plants have prostrate, often ...
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(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 the stems. They come in an array of bright, beautifu...
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<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 (Portulacaria Afra) with many small opposite fleshy obovate...
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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, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for...
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n] - a plant of the family Portulacaceae having fleshy succulent obovate leaves often grown as a potherb or salad herb
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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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a low, trailing plant, Portulaca oleracea, having yellow flowers, used as a salad plant and potherb. Cf. · any other plant of the purslane family.
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