Definitions for portulacas

portulacas por·tu·lac·a

Spelling: [pawr-chuh-lak-uh, pohr-]
IPA: /ˌpɔr tʃəˈlæk ə, ˌpoʊr-/

Portulacas is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 878 anagrams from letters in portulacas (aacloprstu).

Definitions for portulacas

noun

  1. any of various fleshy-leaved plants of the genus Portulaca, especially P. grandiflora, widely cultivated for its showy, variously colored flowers.
  2. any of various fleshy-leaved plants of the genus Portulaca, especially P. grandiflora, widely cultivated for its showy, variously colored flowers.

Origin of portulacas

1540-50; New Latin, genus name, Latin: purslane

Examples for portulacas

No; what I want is a bed of portulaca, and some cypress vines running up strings to the top of a pole.

It was then that K'dunk the Fat One came back to the portulaca bed.

The leaves are said to contain malic acid in considerable quantity, and have been eaten as salad, like portulaca.

Pigweed: portulaca, or the native purslane, a creeping annual of a reddish-green colour and an excellent vegetable.

A pea-plant, with ternate leaves, and fine yellow blossoms, was found near our camp: portulaca was very abundant.

Soppy little plants of the portulaca and small, fine ferns shiver under the drip of falls and in dribbling crevices.

This fact was corroborated by the discovery of irritable stamens in portulaca and Opuntia, and other genera of cactaceæ.

portulaca smiles at you, you know, when you get up soon enough in the morning to see it in its glory.

I mean, the portulaca and heliotrope and other old-fashioned plants she dug up for me.

portulaca, with terete leaves, grows sparingly on the mild rich soil.

Soppy little plants of the portulaca and small, fine ferns shiver under the drip of falls and in dribbling crevices.

Pigweed: portulaca, or the native purslane, a creeping annual of a reddish-green colour and an excellent vegetable.

I mean, the portulaca and heliotrope and other old-fashioned plants she dug up for me.

A pea-plant, with ternate leaves, and fine yellow blossoms, was found near our camp: portulaca was very abundant.

portulaca, with terete leaves, grows sparingly on the mild rich soil.

This fact was corroborated by the discovery of irritable stamens in portulaca and Opuntia, and other genera of cactaceæ.

It was then that K'dunk the Fat One came back to the portulaca bed.

No; what I want is a bed of portulaca, and some cypress vines running up strings to the top of a pole.

The leaves are said to contain malic acid in considerable quantity, and have been eaten as salad, like portulaca.

portulaca smiles at you, you know, when you get up soon enough in the morning to see it in its glory.

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