Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A lettuce cultivar noted for its crunchiness; the most familiar of all lettuces sold in the United States.
WordNet
n. lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head; "iceberg is still the most popular lettuce" [syn: crisphead lettuce, iceberg]
Usage examples of "iceberg lettuce".
Maus abhorred tea bags, pressure cookers, canned fruit cocktail, bottled mayonnaise, instant coffee, iceberg lettuce, monosodium glutamate, eggs poached in geometric shapes, New England boiled dinners, and anything resembling a smorgasbord, salad bar, or all-you-can-eat buffet.
During the weeks that followed, when the head chef was looking the other way, Da Conho would assemble his machine gun, camouflage it with iceberg lettuce, watercress and Belgian endive, and mock-strafe the guests assembled in the dining room.
But the table in the dinette was set for four and at each place was a cottage cheese-filled canned peach set on a leaf of iceberg lettuce.
Because iceberg lettuce was eighty-nine cents a head, Helen had tried to feed the manatee Romaine, which was much cheaper, but the manatee didn't care much for it, so she had gone back to giving it iceberg.
Her blue fingernails sparkled as she shredded a head of iceberg lettuce into the aquarium.
Dinner was roast pork loin, accompanied by boiled yucca, fried candied plantains, black beans, boiled pearl rice, hard Cuban rolls, and a salad of sliced tomatoes, avocados, and iceberg lettuce, with Ellita's homemade Thousand Island dressing.
He had begun to repeat two remarks that seemed wittier as he got drunker: first, that if you were a connoisseur of Kirschner's bologna and iceberg lettuce you were in like Flynn here, bo, and second, that all assistant professors were like T.
He'd slice up some fresh tomatoes and shred some iceberg lettuce he'd bought two days before at Clement's.
Half a jar of mayo, a bottle of beer, whole-wheat bread covered with blue mold, a head of iceberg lettuce, shrink-wrapped in brown slime and plastic, and a box of hamster nuggets stood between me and starvation.
In the comparatively small kitchen he discovered a refrigerator with nothing in it but three white paper containers from Chinese takeout, half a carton of spoiled skim milk, an empty box of shredded wheat, a head of garlic, half a head of spoiled iceberg lettuce, some semiwilted scallions, and a jar of Reese's peanut butter.
They hiked back up to the zoo and paid their dollar to get in, watching the keepers feed enormous pigs whole heads of iceberg lettuce, which the pigs rolled around the barnyard with their snouts in complicated and unfathomable patterns before tiring of it finally and tearing into the lettuce, eating, literally, like pigs.
I could see serving plates stacked high with soft white bread, bowls of applesauce sprinkled with cinnamon, salads of iceberg lettuce that glistened with bottled dressing.
I hear that some interesting things show up in the buffet from time to time, but I am loath to eat at a Chinese restaurant-even a Southern Chinese restaurant-that has a salad bar, replete with iceberg lettuce and Jell-O.
Soft drinks, iceberg lettuce, and ketchup were fast-food mainstays and soon ranked among the most often consumed foods in the nation.
Storm consumed his entire lobster, which was wonderfully fresh, ignored a despicable iceberg lettuce and tomato salad, and picked dubiously at an overheavy crab cake.