purslane

From Old French porcelaine, probably an alteration of Latin porcilaca to assimilate it with porcelaine (“porcelain”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜːslən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɝslən/

purslane (usually uncountable, plural purslanes)

1. A succulent plant of the Portulacaceae family.
   1. the widely-grown edible plant summer purslane (Portulaca oleracea)
   2. moss-rose purslane, moss rose (Portulaca grandiflora)
   3. winter purslane, miner's lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata)
   4. pink purslane (Claytonia sibirica)
   5. sea purslane (Halimione portulacoides)

• (a succulent of the family Portulacaceae):
• (Portulaca oleracea): common purslane, garden purslane, little hogweed, pigweed, pusley, pussley, verdolaga

• purslane on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Portulacaceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• purslane on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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