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leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling. Flowering purslane, or Great flowered purslane, the Portulaca grandiflora. See Portulaca. -- Purslane tree, a South African shrub (Portulacaria Afra) with many small opposite fleshy obovate leaves. -- Sea purslane, a seashore plant (Arena…

See under Purslane.

See under Purslane.

A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spæt'lum.

The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts.

A genus of plants including water purslane.

any plant, the leaves or stems of which are boiled for food, as spinach, lamb's-quarters, purslane, and many others. -- Pot hunter, one who kills anything and everything that will help to fill has bag; also, a hunter who shoots game for the table or for the market. -- Pot metal. (a) The metal from which iron pots are…

Purslane. [Obs.]

Same as Purslane.

Purslane. [Colloq. U. S]

upper and lower half, of which the former acts as a kind of lid, as in the pimpernel and purslane.

ufts in the sands of the northern Atlantic seacoast; -- called also sea sandwort, and sea purslane.

The purslane tree of South Africa, -- said to be the favorite food of elephants. Balfour (Cyc. of India).