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Definition of sea purslane

sea purslane
Sea chickweed Sea" chick"weed` (Bot.) A fleshy plant (Arenaria peploides) growing in large tufts in the sands of the northern Atlantic seacoast; -- called also sea sandwort, and sea purslane.
Sea purslane
Sea purslane Sea" purs"lane (Bot.) See under Purslane.
Sea purslane
Purslane Purs"lane, n. [OF. porcelaine, pourcelaine (cf. It. porcellana), corrupted fr. L. porcilaca for portulaca.] (Bot.) An annual plant (Portulaca oleracea), with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling. Flowering purslane, or Great flowered purslane, the Portulaca grandiflora. See Portulaca. Purslane tree, a South African shrub (Portulacaria Afra) with many small opposite fleshy obovate leaves. Sea purslane, a seashore plant (Arenaria peploides) with crowded opposite fleshy leaves. Water purslane, an aquatic plant (Ludwiqia palustris) but slightly resembling purslane.

Meaning of sea purslane from wikipedia

- Sea purslane is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Halimione portulacoides, in family Amaranthaceae Honckenya peploides, in family Caryophyllaceae...
- pink purslane Halimione portulacoides, sea purslane Sesuvium portulacastrum, s****line purslane Honckenya peploides, also called sea purslane Portulacaria...
- Portulaca oleracea (common purslane, also known as little hogweed, or pursley) is an annual (actually tropical perennial in USDA growing zones 10–11) succulent...
- This species is commonly known as the annual or slender sea purslane or Puerto Rico Sea-purslane. It can be found on sandy beaches, salt marshes, or other...
- species it contains are commonly known as sea-purslanes. Sesuvium crithmoides Welw. – Tropical sea-purslane Sesuvium edmonstonei Hook.f. – Galápagos ****...
- Sesuvium trianthemoides, called Texas sea-purslane, is a rare endemic plant known only from Kenedy County in southern Texas. It grows in salt marshes along...
- the family Aizoaceae known by the common names western sea-purslane and verrucose sea-purslane. It is a perennial herb producing many branching prostrate...
- Halimione pedunculata, the pedunculate sea-purslane, is an annual plant occurring on salty sandy grounds along the seas****. It grows with a standing herbaceous...
- cliff s****lines in the tropics, salt deserts and semi-deserts, the Sarg****o Sea, mudflats and salt marshes, kelp forests and beds, salt lakes and salt steppes...
- it is not indigenous. It is commonly known as s****line purslane or (ambiguously) "sea purslane," in English, dampalit in Tagalog and 海马齿 hǎimǎchǐ in Chinese...