purslane

/purs-leyn, -lin/US // ˈpɜrs leɪn, -lɪn //UK // (ˈpɜːslɪn, -leɪn) //

马齿苋,马兰花,马鞭草,马苏里拉

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a low, trailing plant, Portulaca oleracea, having yellow flowers, used as a salad plant and potherb.Compare purslane family.
- : any other plant of the purslane family.

Purslane is one of the kitchen garden plants most widely diffused throughout the old world from the earliest times.
A very small cuscuta also occurs almost exclusively parasitic on the common purslane.
In among the sweet peas were many little tufts of purslane, and purslane is very good to eat, as anybody knows who has tried it.
In Fig. 272, a Purslane-flower, the same parts are adnate to or consolidated with the ovary up to its middle.
The flora includes purslane, rock roses and several species of ferns and mosses.