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Definition of Common purslane

1. 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.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Purslane

Literary usage of Common purslane

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"Beside the common purslane, one of the most frequent plants about the mountains, we had observed on the Arkansa a smaller species, remarkably pilose about ..."

2. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"Beside the common purslane, one of the most frequent plants about the mountains, we had observed on the Arkansa a smaller species, remarkably pilose about ..."

3. A Complete pronouncing medical dictionary: Embracing the Terminology of by Joseph Thomas (1885)
"... exogenous succulent plant», found in dry places in South America and South Africa. It includes Portula'ca, one species of which is common Purslane, ..."

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