different between portulaca vs pigweed

English

Etymology

From the genus name Portulaca.

Noun

portulaca (plural portulacas)

1. (botany) Any plant in the genus Portulaca
2. (horticulture) Any of many tropical trailing herbs, of the genus Portulaca, having showy flowers

Synonyms

• purslane

Italian

Noun

portulaca f (plural portulache)

1. purslane (any plant of the family Portulacaceae)

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

portul?ca f (genitive portul?cae); first declension

1. The purslane

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

• porcil?ca

References

• portulaca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• portulaca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin portul?ca. Doublet of beldroega, verdoega.

Noun

portulaca f (plural portulacas)

1. purslane (any plant of the family Portulacaceae)

   Synonym: beldroega

English

Etymology

From pig +? weed.

Noun

pigweed (countable and uncountable, plural pigweeds)

1. Any of various weedy plants sometimes used as pig fodder
   • 1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics 2013, p. 11:

     He still carried the basket with the shags and pig-weed.

   1. Amaranthus species
   2. Chenopodium album, white goosefoot
   3. Portulaca bicolor
   4. (uncommon, dialectal) Heracleum sphondylium

      Synonyms: pig's cole, hogweed, cow parsnip, pig's parsnip, clogweed, cadweed

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