Portulaca

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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.

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