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DictionarylettuceLeafy vegetable
noun

lettuce

LET-iss/ˈletɪs/

A leafy vegetable commonly eaten in salads.

Fresh lettuce leaves surround the loose head on the kitchen board.

Fresh head of green leaf lettuce with several loose leaves, botanical food illustration.
Etymology
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Latin lactuca was derived from lac, “milk,” because of the plant's milky juice. The name of this leafy salad vegetable thus points to its sap rather than its leaves.

In context

Jenn Clayton11:51
i have two bags of lettuce like you saw so i want to get four salads out of each out of the two bags of lettuce
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More examples

  • She washed the lettuce before making a salad.
  • The garden produced crisp lettuce all summer.
  • We grew several lettuces in separate rows.

Forms

lettuce · lettuces