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portulace, -lack Now rare.
Also 5 portulake; portulac.
[ad. L. portulāca purslane: see portulaca and cf. OF. portulache, -lague.]
The common Purslane (Portulaca oleracea).
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 240 Þe pacient schal absteine him fro fleisch & fisch & vse lactucis, portulacis. Ibid. 268 An enplastre as of solatri, portulace. c1420Pallad. on Husb. xi. 246 Yf auntes harme, a craft is ek therfore. Held on the tre the Iuce of portulake [rime slake] Half aysel myxt. 1770J. R. Forster tr. Kalm's Trav. N. Amer. (1772) II. 93 Portulack (Portulaca oleracea) grows spontaneously here in great abundance. 1911C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xxvii. 234 They helped their provisions by eating a good deal of a shrub known as portulac. |