portulacaceae | | |
n. (plant) | 1. family portulacaceae, portulacaceae, purslane family | family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas. |
| ~ caryophylloid dicot family | family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers. |
| ~ caryophyllales, chenopodiales, order-chenopodiales, order caryophyllales | corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae. |
| ~ genus portulaca | genus of mainly tropical fleshy or trailing herbs. |
| ~ calandrinia, genus calandrinia | large genus of low-growing herbs; widespread throughout tropical and warm temperate regions having usually basal leaves and panicles of purplish ephemeral flowers. |
| ~ claytonia, genus claytonia | genus of mainly North American succulent herbs with white or pink flowers usually in terminal racemes. |
| ~ genus lewisia, lewisia | genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers. |
| ~ genus montia, montia | small genus of densely tufted annual herbs; north temperate regions and South America and tropical Africa and Asia. |
| ~ genus spraguea, spraguea | small genus of usually perennial herbs having deep woody taproots and flower heads of umbels or cymes. |
| ~ genus talinum, talinum | genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs. |
purslane | | |
n. (plant) | 1. purslane | a plant of the family Portulacaceae having fleshy succulent obovate leaves often grown as a potherb or salad herb; a weed in some areas. |
| ~ common purslane, portulaca oleracea, pussley, pussly, verdolagas | 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. |
| ~ herb, herbaceous plant | a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests. |
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