noun. A trailing plant (Portulaca oleracea) native to Eurasia, having small yellow flowers, reddish stems, and fleshy obovate leaves that can be cooked as a vegetable or used in salads.

noun. A herbaceous plant, Portulaca oleracea, widely distributed through warm and temperate climates.

noun. In America, Sesuvium Portulacastrum, of the warmer Atlantic shores and the saline or alkaline valleys of the southwestern United States, a prostrate fleshy plant, forming mats sometimes 6 feet broad; also, S. pentandrum, sometimes erect, reaching north to New Jersey.

noun. Ludwigia palustris.

noun. An American aquatic or sometimes terrestrial herb, Didiplis linearis, of the Lythrarieæ, with opposite linear leaves and very small greenish flowers.

noun. An annual plant (Portulaca oleracea), with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling.

noun. the Portulaca grandiflora. See Portulaca.

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noun. a South African shrub (Portulacaria Afra) with many small opposite fleshy obovate leaves.

noun. a seashore plant (Arenaria peploides) with crowded opposite fleshy leaves.

noun. an aquatic plant (Ludwiqia palustris) but slightly resembling purslane.

noun. A widely-grown edible plant, Portulaca oleracea in the family Portulacaceae.

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

"Espinazo con verdolagas, pork with purslane, is a popular dish in central Mexico, a distant relative of the pork with greens served in the southern United States, but with the characteristic flavor of chiles."

black purslane  milk-purslane  mud-purslane  sea-purslane  water-purslane  

great flowered purslane  

Herb  herbaceous plant  

common purslane  portulaca oleracea  pussley  pussly  verdolagas  

Portulaca  borage  brocoli  bugloss  campion  

common purslane  little hogweed  pigweed  pusley  verdolaga