PORTULACA OLERACEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Portulaca oleracea mean? 

• PORTULACA OLERACEA (noun)
  The noun PORTULACA OLERACEA has 1 sense:

1. weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan

  Familiarity information: PORTULACA OLERACEA used as a noun is very rare.

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• PORTULACA OLERACEA (noun)

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Meaning:

Weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

common purslane; Portulaca oleracea; pussley; pussly; verdolagas

Hypernyms ("Portulaca oleracea" is a kind of...):

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)

Holonyms ("Portulaca oleracea" is a member of...):

genus Portulaca (genus of mainly tropical fleshy or trailing herbs)