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PURSLANE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purslane mean? 

PURSLANE (noun)
  The noun PURSLANE has 1 sense:

1. a plant of the family Portulacaceae having fleshy succulent obovate leaves often grown as a potherb or salad herb; a weed in some areasplay

  Familiarity information: PURSLANE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PURSLANE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("purslane" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "purslane"):

common purslane; Portulaca oleracea; pussley; pussly; verdolagas (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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