portulaca oleracea

What does portulaca oleracea mean?

portulaca oleracea means "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".

What is another word for portulaca oleracea?

Close synonyms include common purslane, pussley, pussly, verdolagas. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is portulaca oleracea a common word?

portulaca oleracea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for portulaca oleracea come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.