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Definition of Purslanes
1. purslane [n] - See also: purslane
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purslanes
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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