lettuce : Idioms & Phrases

• noun sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce
  BLT.
  

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• noun lettuce with relatively crisp leaves
  

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• noun lettuce with relatively soft leaves
  

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• noun lettuce with relatively soft leaves in a loose head; easily broken or bruised
  

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• noun annual or perennial garden plant having succulent leaves used in salads; widely grown
  Lactuca sativa; common lettuce.
  

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• noun lettuce with long dark-green spoon-shaped leaves
  cos lettuce; Lactuca sativa longifolia.
  
• noun lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head
  romaine; cos lettuce; cos.
  

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• noun lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head
  iceberg; crisphead lettuce.
  
  • iceberg is still the most popular lettuce

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• noun very similar to Potamogeton; of western Africa, Asia, and Europe
  

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• noun annual or perennial garden plant having succulent leaves used in salads; widely grown
  Lactuca sativa; common lettuce.
  

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• (Bot.), a plant of the genus Sonchus, or sow thistle; so called because hares are said to eat it when fainting with heat. Dr. Prior.

Webster 1913

• . See under Hare, and Lamb.

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• noun distinguished by leaves arranged in a dense rosette that develop into a compact ball
  Lactuca sativa capitata.
  

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• noun lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head
  iceberg; crisphead lettuce.
  
  • iceberg is still the most popular lettuce

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• noun a plant of the genus Montia having edible pleasant-tasting leaves
  

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• noun widely cultivated as a salad crop and pot herb; often a weed
  Valerianella olitoria; common corn salad; Valerianella locusta.
  

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• (Bot.), an annual plant with small obovate leaves (Valerianella olitoria), often used as a salad; corn salad. Written also lamb lettuce.

Webster 1913

• noun distinguished by leaves having curled or incised leaves forming a loose rosette that does not develop into a compact head
  Lactuca sativa crispa.
  
• noun lettuce with loosely curled leaves that do not form a compact head
  leaf lettuce.
  

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• . See Lactucarium.

Webster 1913

• noun lettuce with loosely curled leaves that do not form a compact head
  leaf lettuce.
  

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• noun a small plant of Oregon resembling mustard; a threatened species
  Stephanomeria malheurensis.
  

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• noun succulent herb sometimes grown as a salad or pot herb; grows on dunes and waste ground of Pacific coast of North America
  Montia perfoliata; winter purslane; Cuban spinach.
  

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• noun European annual wild lettuce having prickly stems; a troublesome weed in parts of United States
  Lactuca serriola; Lactuca scariola; horse thistle.
  

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• noun lettuce with long dark-green spoon-shaped leaves
  cos lettuce; Lactuca sativa longifolia.
  
• noun lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head
  romaine; cos lettuce; cos.
  

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• noun seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds
  laver.
  

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• certain papery green seaweeds of the genus Ulva.

Webster 1913

• noun thin flat or tubular green algae
  family Ulvaceae; Ulvaceae.
  

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• noun lettuce valued especially for its edible stems
  celtuce; Lactuca sativa asparagina.
  

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• noun pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes
  pistia; water cabbage; Pistia stratiotes; Pistia stratoites.
  

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Wa"ter let"tuce

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1. (Bot.) A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).

Webster 1913

• noun herb of northeastern North America having drooping clusters of yellowish-white flowers; sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes
  cankerweed; Nabalus alba; Prenanthes alba.
  

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• (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under Rattlesnake.

Webster 1913