COMMON PURSLANE

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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

Synonyms:

common purslane; Portulaca oleracea; pussley; pussly; verdolagas

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("common purslane" 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 ("common purslane" is a member of...):

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

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