The species name, oleracea is Latin, meaning "potherb.". From Wordnik.com. [Brigitte Mars: Purslane: Gandhi's Favorite Food May Be a Weed in Your Yard] Reference
Common purslane (Portulaca oleracea) is also used as a potherb and in salads and soups. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
The plant is also good for bug bites, burns (including sunburn) and is eaten as a potherb in the spring. From Wordnik.com. [How to Treat (and Avoid) Poison Ivy and Other Toxic Plants] Reference
Kalasaka is explained by Nilakantha as identical with the common potherb called Shuka or the country sorrel. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
By making a gift under the constellation Jyeshtha, of the potherb called Kalasaka with the roots, one attains to great prosperity as also to such an end as is desirable. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Through the widest of this meadow ran a clear stream winding down to the lake, and on a little knoll beside a lap of the said stream, two bow-shots from the water, was a knoll, whereon stood, amidst of a potherb garden. From Wordnik.com. [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference
This idea seems to gain support also from the fact that certain Eastern peoples, whom modern civilization declares to have uneducated tastes, still employ many herbs which have dropped by the wayside of progress, or like the caraway and the redoubtable "pusley," an anciently popular potherb, are but known in western lands as troublesome weeds. From Wordnik.com. [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference
The young leaves are sometimes used by the common people as a potherb. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
Many people used it as a green potherb, and its leaves can be used for tea. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Young leaves - raw or cooked as a potherb or as a flavouring in cooked foods. From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
A fruit and potherb garden reached to the very buildings; and little patches of a like sort showed themselves even in the intermediate spaces. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter I. Book VII] Reference
Some twenty thousand nimble French souls, evidently of the best French quality, found a home there; made "waste sands about Berlin into potherb gardens;" and in spiritual. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
Wherefore now I bid thee to our house, and these little ones shall go with us, and the three of these horned folk whom we are wont to tether amidst the wrack and ruin of what once was fair; the rest have our leave to depart, and these nibblers also; for we have a potherb garden by our house, and are fain to keep the increase of the same for ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference
A potherb garden by our house, and are fain to keep the increase of the same for ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference
(country-house), twenty miles north of Berlin, into a little jewel of the Dutch type, potherb gardens, training-schools for young girls, and the like, a favorite abode of hers when she was at liberty for recreation. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
Nettle can be used as a fiber and a potherb. From Wordnik.com. [Favorite medicinal plant] Reference
It can be steamed as a potherb or made into soup. From Wordnik.com. [THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE] Reference
It has long been used as a salad and potherb. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
The potherb called. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
A boiled vegetable, the latter as a potherb. From Wordnik.com. [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference
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