Crossword clues for purslane
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Purslane \Purs"lane\, n. [OF. porcelaine, pourcelaine (cf. It. porcellana), corrupted fr. L. porcilaca for portulaca.] (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, or Great flowered 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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A succulent plant of the Portulacaceae family. 2 # the widely-grown edible plant (vern: summer purslane) (''Portulaca oleracea'') 3 # (vern moss-rose purslane pedia=1), moss rose ((taxlink Portulaca grandiflora species noshow=1)) 4 # (vern winter purslane pedia=1), miner's lettuce ((taxlink Claytonia perfoliata species noshow=1)) 5 # (vern pink purslane pedia=1) ((taxlink Claytonia sibirica species noshow=1)) 6 # (vern sea purslane pedia=1) ((taxlink Halimione portulacoides species noshow=1))
WordNet
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
Wikipedia
Purslane is a common name for several plants with edible leaves and may refer to:
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Portulacaceae, a family of succulent flowering plants, and especially:
- Portulaca oleracea, a species of Portulaca eaten as a vegetable and considered a weed, known as summer purslane
- Portulaca grandiflora, moss rose, or moss-rose purslane
- Claytonia perfoliata, Miner's lettuce or winter purslane
- Claytonia sibirica, pink purslane
- Halimione portulacoides, sea purslane
Usage examples of "purslane".
A mouse called Purslane led her husband, Groot, and their baby, Fuffle, through an inventory of the contents.
He remembered that now, though in his tortured memory it had been the mud that killed Purslane, and he had looked on this Gir Doegre landslide with an old blade going through his heart.
Knowing him to be hungry, they whittled down his rations, then laughed at him when, to keep alive, he crept from the camp evenings and crawled about the island in search of purslane and gnetum seeds and other scraggly growing things to munch raw when the cramps bent him.
And at her feet Witherby proudly laid an assortment of ediblesclams and sea-slugs, a wriggling squid, purslane and gnetum seeds and a snail or two.
And at her feet Witherby proudly laid an assortment of edibles--clams and sea-slugs, a wriggling squid, purslane and gnetum seeds and a snail or two.
Isaac had been sent to watch, overran the garden and demolished everything but the purslane and ragweed, while all the time the young man was under the hedge working out mathematical problems from his Descartes.
Wherever a gap pennits light to activate the sandy soil, chickweed and crabgrass grow, and purslane with its hollow red stems covers the earth in busy round-leaved zigzags.
The virtues of purslane, stargrass, and marsh mallows were partially familiar to him.
Knowing him to be hungry, they whittled down his rations, then laughed at him when, to keep alive, he crept from the camp evenings and crawled about the island in search of purslane and gnetum seeds and other scraggly growing things to munch raw when the cramps bent him.
Several plants have been named Chickweed, one of them a plant belonging to the Purslane family and four species of Cerastium -the Mouse Ear Chickweeds - but the name especially belongs to the plant in question, Stellaria media, the ubiquitous garden weed, of which our caged birds are as fond as they are of Groundsel, a taste shared by young chickens, to whose diet it makes a wholesome addition.