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/pˈɜːsleɪn/
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NOUN
- a plant of the family Portulacaceae having fleshy succulent obovate leaves often grown as a potherb or salad herb; a weed in some areas
How To Use purslane In A Sentence
- There were errands to look after, and usually a pig, and sometimes two, that accumulated adipose on purslane and lamb's-quarters, with surplus clams for dessert, also quahaugs to preserve the poetic unities. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
- For a mild mix, combine familiar types of leaf lettuce with greens such as mizuna, purslane, mache and chervil.
- I suppose the bountifulness of this place is because there are three distinct habitats—first you have the salt marsh, with its marsh samphire, sea aster, sea blite and sea purslane," he says. Modern Hunter-Gatherers
- Vegetables rich in glutathione include asparagus, cabbage, cauliflower, potatoes, tomatoes and purslane.
- Mrs. Fitz pointed out foxglove, purslane, and betony, along with a few I did not recognize. Sick Cycle Carousel
- The plant sources are flax seed, walnuts, and purslane, a succulent weed.
- Ingredients: Deionized water, glycerin, dimethyl silicon oil, polyglycerol monostearate, titanium dioxide, purslane extract, chamomile extract, jojoba oil, compound VE, HA.
- In the fall, mushrooms, ripe with the smells of earth and rain and falling leaves; in the spring, mixed found vegetables--dandelion greens, purslane, and lamb's-quarters, cooked in a stew with garlic and hot pepper--with farm eggs poached on top; in the winter, cranberry bean soup cooked in a terra-cotta pot with the rinds of Parmesan cheese; and in the summer, fried zucchini flowers, crisp and aromatic as the early morning air in the mountains. Maria Rodale: A Visit to My Kitchen: Eugenia Bone, Food Writer and Journalist
- For a mild mix, combine familiar types of leaf lettuce with greens such as mizuna, purslane, mache and chervil.
- Some of the other weeds safe for eating include chicory, burdock, purslane, Queen Anne's Lace, and sorrel.