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GENUS PORTULACA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Genus of mainly tropical fleshy or trailing herbs
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Portulaca" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "genus Portulaca"):
portulaca (a plant of the genus Portulaca having pink or red or purple or white ephemeral flowers)
common purslane; Portulaca oleracea; pussley; pussly; verdolagas (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)
Holonyms ("genus Portulaca" is a member of...):
family Portulacaceae; Portulacaceae; purslane family (family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas)
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