Purslane
111verdolagas — noun 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 • Syn: ↑common purslane, ↑pussley, ↑pussly,… …
112peplis — ˈpeplə̇s noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, a plant, from Greek, wild purslane : a genus of chiefly aquatic herbs (family Lythraceae) that have opposite leaves and minute solitary greenish flowers in the axils and are… …
113spekboom — ˈspekˌbüm, bōm noun ( s) Etymology: Afrikaans, literally, fat tree, blubber tree, from Dutch spek fat, blubber, bacon (from Middle Dutch spec) + …
114verdolaga — ˌvərdəˈlägə, ˌver noun ( s) Etymology: Spanish, from Arabic bardilāga, from Latin portulaca purslane more at portulaca : a common purslane (Portulaca oleracea) …
115portulacaceous — adjective see portulacaceae * * * /pawr cheuh leuh kay sheuhs, pohr /, adj. belonging to the Portulacaceae, the purslane family of plants. Cf. purslane family. [ < NL Portulacace(ae) family name (see PORTULACA, ACEAE) + OUS] …
116perseline — /pûrˈsi lēn/ noun a Spenserian form of ↑purslane * * * persel, persely, perseline, perseneppe obs. ff. parsley, purslane, parsnip …
117purs|lane — «PURS layn, luhn», noun. 1. a common plant that has small, yellow flowers and small, thick leaves. It is a trailing herb, sometimes used for salads, for flavoring, or as a potherb. There are several kinds, comprising a genus of annual plants.… …
118VEGETABLES — A distinction must be made between the two kinds of vegetables which the Mishnah calls respectively garden vegetables and field vegetables, i.e., that grow wild in the field. Field vegetables were gathered from earliest times as is reflected in… …
119Arenaria peploides — Sea chickweed Sea chick weed (Bot.) A fleshy plant ({Arenaria peploides}) growing in large tufts in the sands of the northern Atlantic seacoast; called also {sea sandwort}, and {sea purslane}. [1913 Webster] …
120Bitterroot — Bit ter*root , n. (Bot.) A plant ({Lewisia rediviva}) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the …
