| NOUN | plant | pussly, common purslane, pussley, verdolagas, Portulaca oleracea | 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 |
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| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Synonyms | common purslane, pussley, verdolagas, Portulaca oleracea | |
| Member of | genus Portulaca | genus of mainly tropical fleshy or trailing herbs |
| Broader | purslane | A plant of the family Portulacaceae having fleshy succulent obovate leaves often grown as a potherb or salad herb |
| Spanish | pussley, verdolagas | |
| Catalan | Portulaca oleracea, pussley | |
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