Definition of Purslanes

1. Noun. (plural of purslane) ¹

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Definition of Purslanes

1. purslane [n] - See also: purslane

Lexicographical Neighbors of Purslanes

purseweb spiders
pursewed
pursewing
pursews
pursier
pursiest
pursily
pursiness
pursinesses
pursing
purslain
purslains
purslane
purslane family
purslane speedwell
purslanes (current term)
pursuable
pursual
pursuals
pursuance
pursuances
pursuant
pursuant(p)
pursuantly
pursuaunt
pursue
pursued
pursuee
pursuees
pursuer

Literary usage of Purslanes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1896)
"purslanes 07 is about 6 inches in height, and flowers in early summer. ... purslanes Natural Order ..."

2. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"The fleshy leaves of the goose- foots and purslanes call to mind similar characters of rock or desert succulents. If the body of a glasswort is chewed a ..."

3. Reports of the Survey (1899)
"... purslanes and mat-spurges select. purslanes and spring- beauties. Of the purslanes three genera are ..."

4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1903)
"Who could exalt into garden flowers our wretched pig-weed, or amaranths or cockleburs ; our purslanes and carpet-weeds ? Yet even here we see how narrow is ..."

5. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1903)
"Who could exalt into garden flowers our wretched pig-weed, or amaranths or cockleburs ; our purslanes and carpet-weeds ? Yet even here we see how narrow is ..."

6. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1873)
"... purslanes. Herbs succulent or fleshy, with entire leaves, no stipules, and regular flowers. Sepals 1, united at base, rarely 3 or 6. Petals 5, rarely 0, ..."

7. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "First Lessons in by Asa Gray (1880)
"Every gradation occurs between ? such a case and that of a calyx altogether free or inferior, as we see in different purslanes and Saxifrages. ..."

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