English Explanatory Dictionary

purslane

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of the family Portulacaceae (order Caryophyllales) of succulent plants.
  2. common purslane or summer purslane (Portulaca oleracea), a widely-grown edible plant
  3. moss-rose purslane, moss rose (Portulaca grandiflora)
  4. Any of similar plants in other families in order Caryophyllales
  5. winter purslane, miner's lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata)
  6. pink purslane (Claytonia sibirica)
  7. sea purslane
  8. Halimione portulacoides
  9. Honckenya peploides
  10. shoreline purslane (Sesuvium portulacastrum)
  11. purslane tree (Portulacaria afra)

Pronunciation

/ˈpɜːslən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-purslane.wav /ˈpɝslən/

Word forms

purslane purslanes purslain

Etymology

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

Synonyms

common purslane garden purslane little hogweed pigweed pusley pussley verdolaga

Derived words

mud purslane purslane tree water-purslane wild purslane

Translations

Baluchi: پَرپُک Bulgarian: ту́ченица Chinese Mandarin: 馬齒莧 /马齿苋 Finnish: portulakka French: pourpier German: Portulak Hungarian: porcsin Hungarian: portuláka Kapampangan: saytsaytan Kapampangan: saitsaitan Kazakh: қараот Latin: portulaca Polish: portulaka Portuguese: portulaca Portuguese: beldroega Spanish: verdolaga Tagalog: kulasiman Tagalog: alusiman Tagalog: ulasiman Ottoman Turkish: سمیز اوت
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