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purslane
[ purs-leyn, -lin ]
noun
- 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.
purslane
/ ˈpɜːslɪn; -leɪn /
noun
- 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
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of purslane1
C14 purcelane, from Old French porcelaine, from Late Latin porcillāgō, from Latin porcillāca, variant of portulāca
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Example Sentences
Purslane is one of the kitchen garden plants most widely diffused throughout the old world from the earliest times.
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A very small cuscuta also occurs almost exclusively parasitic on the common purslane.
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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.
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In Fig. 272, a Purslane-flower, the same parts are adnate to or consolidated with the ovary up to its middle.
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The flora includes purslane, rock roses and several species of ferns and mosses.
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