portulaca
(noun) a plant of the genus Portulaca having pink or red or purple or white ephemeral flowers
Source: WordNet® 3.1
portulaca (plural portulacas)
(botany) Any plant in the genus Portulaca
(gardening) Any of many tropical trailing herbs, of the genus Portulaca, having showy flowers
• purslane
Source: Wiktionary
Por`tu*la"ca, n. Etym: [L., purslane.] (Bot.)
Definition: A genus of polypetalous plants; also, any plant of the genus.
Note: Portulaca oleracea is the common purslane. P. grandiflora is a South American herb, widely cultivated for its showy crimson, scarlet, yellow, or white, ephemeral blossoms.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
