portulaca
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of portulaca
1540–50; < New Latin, genus name, Latin: purslane
Example Sentences
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He liked rarities such as the connoisseur’s rambling rose, Aviateur Bleriot, but he saw the same regal presence in a humble nasturtium or that fleshy summer annual no longer in vogue, portulaca.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2021
To approximate the colors with which pious artisans glorified God at Chartres and Poitiers, Artist Saint has cooked up messes of egg-yolk, hollyhock, calendula and portulaca.
From Time Magazine Archive
They do not belong to the grovelling tribe of herbs that bend and refuse to break like portulaca, chickweed, and pusley the accursed.
From The Garden, You, and I by Wright, Mabel Osgood
Then there are to be eschscholtzias, dahlias, sunflowers, zinnias, scabiosa, portulaca, yellow violas, yellow stocks, yellow sweet-peas, yellow lupins—everything that is yellow or that has a yellow variety.
From Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth
No; what I want is a bed of portulaca, and some cypress vines running up strings to the top of a pole.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
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