waterleaf

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Talinum fruticosum, eaten as a vegetable in tropical regions

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From water +‎ leaf.

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waterleaf (plural waterleafs or waterleaves)

  1. (botany) Any plant of the genus Hydrophyllum.
  2. (botany) Any plant of Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family.
  3. A tropical plant (Talinum fruticosum), the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable.
    • 2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 19:
      ‘I like how the onions and waterleaf are slightly raw. They spice the egusi nicely, very nicely.’
  4. (architecture) A leaf-shaped decoration used on the capitals of columns in late 12th-century Romanesque architecture
  5. (paper technology) An absorbent unsized paper, somewhat like blotter paper.

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