Purslane

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A trailing Asian weed (Portulaca oleracea) having small yellow flowers, reddish stems, and fleshy obovate leaves that are sometimes cooked as a vegetable or used in salads.
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  • n. A widely-grown edible plant, Portulaca oleracea in the family Portulacaceae.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An annual plant (Portulaca oleracea), with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A herbaceous plant, Portulaca oleracea, widely distributed through warm and temperate climates.
  • n. In America, Sesuvium Portulacastrum, of the warmer Atlantic shores and the saline or alkaline valleys of the southwestern United States, a prostrate fleshy plant, forming mats sometimes 6 feet broad; also, S. pentandrum, sometimes erect, reaching north to New Jersey.
  • n. Ludwigia palustris.
  • n. An American aquatic or sometimes terrestrial herb, Didiplis linearis, of the Lythrarieæ, with opposite linear leaves and very small greenish flowers.
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  • n. a plant of the family Portulacaceae having fleshy succulent obovate leaves often grown as a potherb or salad herb; a weed in some areas
    • Equivalent
    great flowered purslane   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    herbaceous plant    Herb   
    Cross Reference
    milk-purslane    water-purslane    mud-purslane    winter purslane    sea-purslane   
    Hyponym
    common purslane    portulaca oleracea    verdolagas    pussley    pussly   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pusley    common purslane    little hogweed    verdolaga    pigweed   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    clock-face    salt marsh    brocoli    snapdragon    bugloss   
     
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