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Common purslane

noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: Portulaca oleracea, pussley, pussly, verdolagas.






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"Common purslane" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the disease animal, according to the idea known to modern folklorists as the doctrine of signatures. Thus at the present day the doctor puts into the decoction intended as a vermifuge some of the red fleshy stalks of the common purslane or chickweed (Portulaca oleracea), because these stalks somewhat resemble worms and consequently must have some occult influence over worms. Here the chickweed is a fetich precisely as is the flint arrow head which is put into the same decoction, in order that in the same ...
— The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees • James Mooney



Words linked to "Common purslane" :   genus Portulaca, purslane, pussly



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