Purslane

n.

1.

(Bot.) An annual plant (Portulaca oleracea), with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling. Flowering purslane the Portulaca grandiflora. See Portulaca. Purslane tree a South African shrub (Portulacaria Afra) with many small opposite fleshy obovate leaves. Sea purslane a seashore plant (Arenaria peploides) with crowded opposite fleshy leaves. Water purslane an aquatic plant (Ludwiqia palustris) but slightly resembling purslane.

Noun

1.

purslane - a plant of the family Portulacaceae having fleshy succulent obovate leaves often grown as a potherb or salad herb; a weed in some areas

common purslane, herb, herbaceous plant, Portulaca oleracea, pusly, pussley, verdolagas

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