Crossword-Solution: PURSLANE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Purslane | n. | An annual plant (Portulaca oleracea), with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PURSLANE | anagram | SUPERNAL |
We have 12 clues for the answer “PURSLANE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| FRENCH herbaceous plant | 1 answer |
| FRENCH kitchen herb | 1 answer |
| FRENCH plant | 1 answer |
| FRENCH salad plant | 1 answer |
| PORTULACA oleracea | 1 answer |
| Portulaca plant in salads | 1 answer |
| Salad potherb. | 1 answer |
| Weed with pink fleshy stems. | 1 answer |
| Portulaca. | 2 answers |
| KITCHEN herb | 16 answers |
| ASIAN herbaceous plant | 18 answers |
| Weed | 38 answers |
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The old plural of Eye.
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Sentences with PURSLANE (5)
Botanists carried it abroad where under the name of winter-purslane it is used in France and England for greens or salad, while remaining practically unknown at home.
The paths, once graveled, are overgrown with purslane; but, to be accurate there is no trace of a path.
The following are commonly used as salads: Dandelion, yellow racket, purslane (pusley), watercress, nasturtium; and the following as greens for cooking: narrow or sour dock, stinging nettle, pokeweed, pigweed or lamb's quarters, black mustard.
They brought also some purslane, [158] which grows in large quantities among the Indian corn, and of which they make no more account than of weeds.
AUGUST Keep the garden clean from late weeds--especially purslane, the hot- weather weed pest, which should be always _removed_ from the garden and burned or rotted down.
Quotes with PURSLANE (1)
Making love was a game of echoes. We had shared memories so many times that when I made love to her, I knew exactly how it felt to be Purslane. I could taste and feel her other lovers and she could taste and feel mine, each experience reaching away like a reflection in a hall of mirrors, diminishing into a kind of carnal background radiation, a sea of sensuous experience. I had been a girl once, then a thousand men and women and all their lovers. The stasis field locked on. T…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1958–2010).