Portulaca

Word PORTULACA
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What do we mean by portulaca?

Any of various succulent plants of the genus Portulaca, especially P. grandiflora of South America, cultivated for its showy colorful flowers that open only in sunlight. noun

Any of many tropical trailing herbs, of the genus Portulaca, having showy flowers noun

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The word "portulaca" in example sentences

On a pleasant evening after work last week, Nurrenbern and his volunteers planted a variety of flora with whimsical names such as "Margarita Banana" portulaca, "Serena Purple" angelonia, and "Mint Mocha" coleus, as well as the better-known petunias. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A flower whose name I learned in France is "pourpier," which is portulaca, a heat-tolerant plant with vividly colored blooms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Purslane (Portulaca oleracea, P. sativa) is a member of the Portulacaceae Family and also known as wild portulaca and verdolaga. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The garden includes a Japanese maple and eight kinds of flowers, among them hydrangeas, petunias, pansies and portulaca. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The garden includes a Japanese maple and eight kinds of lowers, among them hydrangeas, petunias, pansies and portulaca. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Verdolaga (purslane) portulaca oleracea: Eaten either raw in salad or steamed in mole verde, this succulent annual is traditionally served in Mexico in a pork stew - espinazo con verdolagas - with a tomatillo-based sauce. ❋ Unknown (2006)

This could be supplemented, of course, by portulaca, which was now flowering in the wet season, by such birds as they could shoot -- mainly ducks, hawks and crows -- and by fish; but their experiences in coming up to the Gulf had shown that they could not expect much from this source. ❋ Underwood, Lamar (2001)

Madeline sat very still, not saying a word, as she watched him march to and fro between the beds of verbena and love-lies-bleeding and portulaca. ❋ Margaret Rebecca Piper (N/A)

There was a small artificial mound of stones at one side of the house, with a somewhat scanty growth of portulaca springing from its top. ❋ Various (N/A)

Allison lay very still, smoothing his wife's hand, and looking out through the open door at the dry grass of the yard, browner, dustier than ever, and at the portulaca waving on top of the pyramid of stones. ❋ Various (N/A)

It was Roddy's fancy, too, to cover this grave with portulaca -- a little plant bearing starry flowers of vivid hues that live for a day only. ❋ Cynthia Stockley (N/A)

"But the grave we covered with portulaca --" She stopped abruptly, for the boy's face had assumed the look she could not bear -- the look of enduring that only those hardened to life should know. ❋ Cynthia Stockley (N/A)

In a moment he was gone, past the portulaca and love-lies-bleeding, past ❋ Margaret Rebecca Piper (N/A)

For, as we all know, there is absolutely no color, except green, that portulaca does not perpetrate in its blossoms. ❋ Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris (1917)

There were big sunflowers for the canary bird, tiger lilies and phlox and zinnias and lady's-slippers and portulaca and hollyhocks, -- giant hollyhocks. ❋ Unknown (1915)

"I use portulaca powder and tiger lily bullets on the tigers, and four o'clocks on the lions," I said. ❋ Unknown (1913)

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