Crossword clues for lettuce
lettuce
- Salad leaves
- Caesar salad ingredient
- Romaine, e.g
- Romaine or iceberg
- Club sandwich layer
- Money for a rabbit?
- Low-carb sandwich wrap
- Iceberg is one type
- Club layer
- The "L" in a BLT
- Sandwich layer
- Salad standby
- Salad basis, usually
- Salad bar staple
- Only vegetable never sold frozen, canned, processed, or cooked
- Lunch, part 2
- Leaf source
- Head or iceberg
- Green bed
- Dough; bread
- Cos, for example
- Cos, e.g
- Cos or romaine
- Butterhead, e.g
- Basic salad ingredient
- Plant used in salad
- Leaves for lunch?
- Moolah
- Contents of some beds
- Long green
- Head on a plate?
- B*T
- Any of various plants of the genus Lactuca
- Leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa
- Romaine, for one
- Cos, e.g.
- Salad ingredient
- Vegetable
- Vegetable cutlet prepared with pea, essentially
- Playing lute etc in Cos?
- Plant leased before truce? Not right
- Part of a BLT
- Devilled cutlet with 'reduction' of endive leaves
- Salad green
- Salad vegetable
- Green stuff
- Salad base
- Salad greens
- BLT ingredient
- Salad bar item
- Rabbit food
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lettuce \Let"tuce\ (l[e^]t"t[i^]s), n. [OE. letuce, prob. through Old French from some Late Latin derivative of L. lactuca lettuce, which, according to Varro, is fr. lac, lactis, milk, on account of the milky white juice which flows from it when it is cut: cf. F. laitue. Cf. Lacteal, Lactucic.]
(Bot.) A composite plant of the genus Lactuca ( Lactuca sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactucarium is obtained. The commonest wild lettuce of the United States is Lactuca Canadensis.
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United States currency; dollar bills; greenbacks. [slang]
Hare's lettuce, Lamb's lettuce. See under Hare, and Lamb.
Lettuce opium. See Lactucarium.
Sea lettuce, certain papery green seaweeds of the genus Ulva.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., probably from Old French laitues, plural of laitue "lettuce," from Latin lactuca "lettuce," from lac (genitive lactis) "milk" (see lactation); so called for the milky juice of the plant.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An edible plant, ''Lactuca sativa'' and its close relatives, having a head of green and/or purple leaves. 2 (context uncountable English) The leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable; as a dish often mixed with other ingredients, dressing etc. 3 (context uncountable US slang English) United States paper currency; dollars.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Lettuce is a funk band that originated in Boston, Massachusetts in 1992. Its members consist of guitarists Eric Krasno and Adam "Shmeeans" Smirnoff, Neal Evans (keyboards, hammond B-3 organ, piano), Adam Deitch (drums/percussion), Erick "E.D." Coomes (bass), Ryan Zoidis (saxophone), and partial-member Rashawn Ross (trumpet). In 2011, trumpeter Eric "Benny" Bloom replaced Rashawn Ross in the band. They are known for their energetic live shows.
Lettuce is a leafy vegetable.
Lettuce may also refer to:
- Lettuce (band), American funk band
- Lettuce sandwich
- Hedda Lettuce, American drag performer
- Lettuce Lake, a body of water in Lettuce Lake Park
Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) is an annual plant of the daisy family Asteraceae. It is most often grown as a leaf vegetable, but sometimes for its stem and seeds. Lettuce was first cultivated by the ancient Egyptians who turned it from a weed, whose seeds were used to produce oil, into a food plant grown for its succulent leaves, in addition to its oil-rich seeds. Lettuce spread to the Greeks and Romans, the latter of whom gave it the name , from which the English lettuce is ultimately derived. By 50 AD, multiple types were described, and lettuce appeared often in medieval writings, including several herbals. The 16th through 18th centuries saw the development of many varieties in Europe, and by the mid-18th century cultivars were described that can still be found in gardens. Europe and North America originally dominated the market for lettuce, but by the late 20th century the consumption of lettuce had spread throughout the world.
Generally grown as a hardy annual, lettuce is easily cultivated, although it requires relatively low temperatures to prevent it from flowering quickly. It can be plagued with numerous nutrient deficiencies, as well as insect and mammal pests and fungal and bacterial diseases. L. sativa crosses easily within the species and with some other species within the Lactuca genus; although this trait can be a problem to home gardeners who attempt to save seeds, biologists have used it to broaden the gene pool of cultivated lettuce varieties. World production of lettuce and chicory for calendar year 2010 stood at , over half of which came from China.
Lettuce is most often used for salads, although it is also seen in other kinds of food, such as soups, sandwiches and wraps; it can also be grilled. One variety, the , or asparagus lettuce, is grown for its stems, which are eaten either raw or cooked. Lettuce is a rich source of vitamin K and vitamin A, and is a moderate source of folate and iron. Contaminated lettuce is often a source of bacterial, viral and parasitic outbreaks in humans, including E. coli and Salmonella. In addition to its main use as a leafy green, it has also gathered religious and medicinal significance over centuries of human consumption.
Usage examples of "lettuce".
When ready to serve, arrange the cups on shredded lettuce and fill with cooked asparagus tips, cold and mixed with mayonnaise or French dressing, as desired.
Never mind, I had an established asparagus bed so I would be able to cut asparagus for our meals, also I could harvest early lettuce, broccoli and radishes, leeks and spring cabbages, winter cauliflower and winter spinach.
Garnish with flowerets of cauliflower, dipped in aspic and chilled, and lettuce.
When the aspic is thoroughly set and chilled, remove from the mould and serve on two lettuce leaves, with any dressing desired.
When removed from the mould, garnish with chopped aspic and fans cut from gherkins and lettuce.
Their meal arrived, and they ate in silence through the entree, a veal marsala accompanied by a Bibb lettuce and rugala salad.
The maid had set out five bone china plates holding salads that combined Bibb lettuce, avocado slices, and wedges of ripe pear with a crumbling of Gorgonzola.
And you doter lettuce, water chestnuts, mandarin orange sections and Now he did look at her, a brief flash from those dark eyes, slivered almonds, and top it off with poppy-seed dressing.
This is said to be one of the five bitter herbs ordered to be eaten by the Jews during the Feast of the Passover, the other four being Coriander, Horehound, Lettuce, and Nettle.
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.
Each part of the garden was cultivated and cross-cultivated, a palimpsest of lettuce and kohlrabi, of onions and mignonette, of sweet peppers and raspberry canes and mint.
Martin McCord spends a surprising amount of his free time there, tending his own rack of fast-growing dwarf strains of carrot, lettuce, radish, and kohlrabi, which he doles out with the grave courtesy of a maiden aunt bestowing sweets on favored nephews and nieces.
Harry has his little vegetable garden in imitation of the one his parents had in the back yard on Jackson Road, all he grows is lettuce and carrots and kohlrabi, he does love to nibble.
The sailu was snuggled up in her hand as she fed it with the crinkled red and green leaves of a lollo lettuce.
I am greeted by a very mopey looking lettuce and some out-of-date yogurts.