1. 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
   "She gathered fresh Portulaca oleracea leaves for her Greek salad";
   - common purslane, pussley [US], pussly [US], verdolaga, purslane

Type of: purslane

Part of: genus Portulaca

Encyclopedia: Portulaca oleracea