Portulaca

See also: portulaca

Translingual

Portulaca grandiflora

Etymology

From Latin portulāca (“purslain”), from portula (“little door”), from porta (“door”) + -ula (“diminutive suffix”), apparently because of the door-like opening of the seed capsule.

Proper noun

Portulaca f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Portulacaceae – the portulacas or purslanes.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots - clades; Caryophyllales - order; Portulacaceae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Portulaca oleracea - type species; Portulaca bicolor, Portulaca conoidea, Portulaca grandiflora - selected species

References

• Portulaca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Portulaca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Portulaca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Portulaca at The Plant List