An annual plant (Portulaca oleracea), with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling
A garden herb with a reddish green stem, thick leaves, yellow flowers, and a mild acidic fatty flavor Purslane is used in salads, used as a potherb in soups and gumbos, and can also be eaten raw Also called "pussley "
a plant of the family Portulacaceae having fleshy succulent obovate leaves often grown as a potherb or salad herb; a weed in some areas
A low succulent herb, Portulaca oleracea, widely distributed throughout tropical and warmer temperate regions, used in salads, and sometimes as a pot-herb, or for pickling Also called common or garden purslane Formerly cultivated in English kitchen gardens, but now rarely met with See notes on herbs
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
An annual plant (Montia perfoliata) of western North America, having small white flowers and fleshy leaves sometimes eaten in salads. Also called miner's lettuce
[ 'p&r-sl&n, -"slAn ] (noun.) 14th century. From Old French porcelaine, probably an alteration of Latin porcillaca to assimilate with porcelaine ‘porcelain’.